Josh Castle's Learning Journal

       This week’s reading mainly talked about how at the start of social media it was mainly just about getting users to onboard their platform and whichever platform had the greatest number of users would be the most popular and winning one. Nowadays, its mainly looked at for the business side of it. It is clear that majority of people go on social more then watch television these days so instead of media advertisers taking their ads to televisions commercials more and more businesses are moving to having their ads displayed on popular social media plat forms like Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Since this has started happening it has changed the way that platforms look at their consumers. Instead of Instagram for example knowing who everyone is that is signing up to be on their platform, they don't care about that as much as they care about finding out your likes and interest so that they can display those ads in your timeline page. For example, when I...

       So for this assignment i chose to use instagram for my time diary considering the fact that i think i use instagram more than any other social media tool. I know that i go on instagram at least a couple times a day so i felt like this would be the best choice to select for my time diary. So my time on instagram for the last 4 days is this:  Friday, February 17 I averaged 52 minutes. Saturday, February 18 I averaged 52 minutes. Sunday, February 19 I averaged 20 minutes. Monday, February 20 I averaged 1 hour and 19 minutes. Which makes sense to me because on the weekends i'm usually pretty busy and don't really goo on my phone too much in general but on the week days i have a little bit more free time and can just hang out for a little. I only ever go on instagram on my iPhone. Im aware that you can go on it on your laptop or iPad but for me personally i just like to use it on my phone so that i can just use it wherever...