The conclusion…

The third and final analysis for this brief, and my final informal analysis before I dive in, head first, into the pool that is the essay. I’m going to look at this with more of an outsider’s point of view.

There were definitely patterns that emerged from studying and analysing the online media use of myself. Consistently key themes would come up, with regards to boredom, social media became more of a fixation and cure to this boredom, and almost then became an addiction that was relied upon to cure this. Social media, in turn, and as an addiction would, becomes something that transforms from a cure, into something that needs to be cured. It’s this vicious pattern that has the ability to lure in adolescents, and increasingly the wider population, into transforming social media from something people seldom check, into a fixation, an addiction. Understandably, people have flipped the words SOCIAL MEDIA from just that, into UNSOCIAL MEDIA. With their heads down, headphones on and smart watch in tow, people are using this as an escape from their lives and a way of tuning out from the rest of the world.

With regards to the use of myself, I very much keep things professional and use my social media more as a way of escaping my busy life, where I’m constantly talking to others and conversing, and use this as a de-stress or way to escape – obviously with intentions of it never taking over my current situation or ruining my life. At the end of the day, I’m a 20 year old millennial, living in a world where online media can either ruin or make a life, and hopefully my life will end up like the latter.