{"id":29,"date":"2015-04-13T00:55:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T00:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/2015\/04\/13\/ryan-rethinks\/"},"modified":"2015-04-13T00:55:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T00:55:44","slug":"ryan-rethinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/2015\/04\/13\/ryan-rethinks\/","title":{"rendered":"ryan rethinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is an interesting creation. I have always found<br \/>\nthe entire medium boring and only used to procrastinate when I am doing<br \/>\nhomework or to hide from awkward social encounters, which seem to happen a lot.<br \/>\nI rarely engage with my audience through my social media, but keep to myself<br \/>\nthrough reading articles or watching videos. I shared my experience with social<br \/>\nmedia by posting relevant articles or videos to our class that I found<br \/>\ninteresting and funny. A true first hand experience of what it is like to live<br \/>\nmy life through social media. Instagram was a different perspective where I<br \/>\nchoose to depict a day in my life, taking pictures wherever I went. This<br \/>\nrepresents living my life through social media, which is something lots of people<br \/>\ndo with their constant status updates with what they are doing or pictures of<br \/>\nwhere they find themselves in that time. Both of these uses of social media are<br \/>\nsomething I rarely do. It was much easier to use social media without my name<br \/>\nattached to it and with guidelines given as to how I should go about my<br \/>\nadventures on social media. I believe this may be due to my formulaic nature. I<br \/>\nenjoy when things are spelled out clearly as opposed to being abstract and<br \/>\nfinding myself deciding how to go about something. This is not to say I lack a<br \/>\ncreative vigor or I am simply a mindless follower, but I do enjoy some guidance<br \/>\nwhen it comes to things I am not familiar with. Social media is something<br \/>\nforeign to me and using it more often than I normally do was a beneficial<br \/>\nexperience. I think it will allow me to share things more fervently with my<br \/>\naudience on social media and be more outgaining with things I enjoy. I don\u2019t<br \/>\nthink I will become a social media proponent anytime soon, but I\u2019ll be sure to<br \/>\nuse it in a more productive way than hiding from an awkward conversation at a<br \/>\nparty. <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=rheoftheiphone\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is an interesting creation. I have always found the entire medium boring and only used to procrastinate when I am doing homework or to hide from awkward social encounters, which seem to happen a lot. I rarely engage with my audience through my social media, but keep to myself through reading articles or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}