My Last Blog...For Now

Never did I ever think I would write a blog but over the course of this semester I actually began to enjoy it. Don’t let the fact that I wrote all of them last minute fool you because it’s just who I am. I enjoyed sitting down every week and reflecting on what I have been doing, what I had been reading and what I had been learning. It gave me a sense of accomplishment to follow through with this for the whole semester no matter how much I complained on Sunday night when I had to start posting.

This class has taught me so many things besides what it’s like to blog. I will be the first to admit, I am probably too involved in social media. I enjoy just sitting and staring for far too long each day looking for new people to follow, memes to laugh at and pictures to like as I go throughout my day. So along with blogging, this class taught me out to properly use social media and the use of social media for not only my personal profiles but if I were ever to run a business profile as well.

This class really opened my eyes to how big the world of social media really is. I soon realized I was only scraping the surface of my social media’s capabilities and I realized I could be getting so much more out of my profiles. Whether it be using hashtags on my pictures or tweets, setting up a Google alert for when my name gets searched, searching by geographical location on Instagram to find people posting in my area or in an area I am interested in and the list goes on and on and my appreciation for the work of social media just keeps growing.

I firmly believe even if this class requires time and work to put out three blogs a week and learning AP style and getting used to the format of how things work, it is one of my favorite classes I’ve taken here at ONU. It kept me focused and engaged in the class itself and in the world of social media around me and gave me many tools to further my knowledge and skills in my career which I am looking forward to using.

The atmosphere of this class was my favorite part about it. It was very laid back but also a great atmosphere to buckle down and get work down when we needed to. It was a great class to get to know new people as well as we had to comment on each other’s blogs each week, so we really got to get to know our classmates. After finishing this class, I do actually plan on continuing my blog. I will be spending the summer in Chicago, so I plan on using this platform to keep everyone updated on what is going on in my life and I’m hoping it grows from there. This is my last blog of this class and I think I will always be thankful for what this class taught me.