LIBS1970 Assignment 2: Analyzing Self and Social Media Engagement

This assignment analyzes a student's social media usage, focusing on platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and LinkedIn. The student reflects on their social integration and emotional connection scores, revealing a preference for professional interactions and humorous content sharing. The analysis explores the purpose of each platform, the quality and content shared, and how social media relates to self-view. The student identifies desired changes, such as reducing inauthentic elements. The assignment includes a comparative analysis of scores before and after the course, highlighting changes in perspective and a more balanced approach to social media. The student demonstrates an understanding of the course material by applying the concepts learned to their own experiences and behaviors.

Assignment #2 – Self and Social Media
Week 4
1. What were your total scores for each subscale?
TOTAL SCORE TIME 1 Social Integration subscale: ____28_____
TOTAL SCORE TIME 1 Emotional Connection subscale: __12_______
2. Reflect on who you are based on the results, do you agree or not?
On the basis of the results, I can say that I am a social “media shy” person who prefers to
use social media as a serious business mostly. The scores seem on the higher side in the
social integration subscale, however, they are on the lower side on the emotional
connection subscale. This also gives an idea that I am not addicted to social media and
survive without it very easily on an interpersonal level.

Week 5
3. What social media platforms do you use?
I prefer to use Facebook, WhatsApp group and Linked Inn.
4. For what purpose do you use each platform?
With the help of the Whatsapp group, I am connected with my close friends, relatives, and
family members.
It is a kind of replacement of the regular calling on the phone. Sometimes we use Whatsapp as a
tool for saving the time, a message posted on the wall of a group is for everyone and we don’t
need to post the same message for every person individually.
Facebook is my connection with distance relationships and individuals with whom I share a
semi-personal relationship. With the help of Facebook, I also stay in touch with the latest news
and views. As a social media platform, Facebook allows me to stay in touch with the latest
happenings around me.
My "Linked In" account is meant for professional interactions. Here I maintain a formal profile
and only deals with career and profession-related matters.
Week 7
5. How would you characterize the quality and content of your social media use? To
answer this question, you may want to try referring to some of your posts/shares/etc.
Most of the social media platform gives you this interface where you can register your presence
by liking or disliking the presence of the others (Shanab, 2015). Sometimes I reflect my mood on
certain occasions or happenings that are taking place around me. For instance, on the day of

"women's day, sometimes I prefer to share a few quotes about the multiple roles that a woman
play in our life. Sometimes I share healthy jokes commenting on the changing social trends. If I
will be given a chance to characterize my content, then I would like to give it the adjective of
“entertaining content.”
6. What kinds of things do you share?
I prefer to share humorous content and meme’s mostly depicting the “comedy of manners.”
Social media allows us to subtly putting forward certain messages. Many dedicated pages are
producing such type of humorous content on a daily basis. I select some meaningful messages
and forward them to my friends.
7. How often and with whom?
I am not a regular; if something appeals to me then I prefer to share it with my friends on
Facebook. If any message has an anecdotal value then I sometimes share it on Whatsapp.
8. Why do you feel you need to share certain information?
Whenever I work on Linked In, I feel that I should share the milestones of my career with others.
I treat Linked in as a medium of broadcast rather than a medium of personal messaging or
official messaging. For the purpose of messaging, I rely more on a traditional electronic mail,
where I can answer the emails while following the official protocols.
I need to broadcast myself on Linked in because I want to showcase my abilities in front of the
probable employers and let them know about the expansions in my working profile.

Week 9
9. How does your social media use to relate to how you view yourself?
Sometimes I use social media as a gentle reminder, whenever I share something funny on social
media, the likes, and comments made by my friends allow me to check a few things about my
choices. On a professional level, I always check the visitor's data and check their profile in
return. This exercise gives me an idea that what type of employers are interested in the services
that I am offering in the market. It also gives me an idea about the new job profiles that are
emerging in the market. My social media outings where I check the profiles of the visitors also
gives me an idea about the areas of my job profile where I need to add a few skills and upgrade
my knowledge.
10. What aspects do you think have contributed to your identity and sense of self, and
why?
I am not overboard with my online personality. Sometimes it can act as a projected personality
and disappoint people in the real world. For instance, if I wish to write about my hobbies on a
Facebook profile, then I am bound to fill certain columns. Most of the questions in this area are
close-ended questions. They can only present a superficial idea of my personality; my real
personality is something that I can present while someone will meet me on a one on one basis.
However, social media taught me this art of staying on my toes all the time. The information is
traveling very fast here and we cannot deny the fact that "the first impression is the lasting one."
So far I projected my image as an intelligent and sensitive person.

Week 12
11. What changes do you want to make (or have you made) to your social media use? Why?
As the trends in the media suggest and I personally feel about it, I want to remove all the
elements that can be considered as fake. Here I would like to comment upon the culture of the
Selfies, I saw many teenagers and adults clicking selfies voraciously. In the search of a selfie,
they often forget about the real intent of any occasion or a trip.
While visiting the profiles of my friends I sometimes feel that they are living for selfies. In my
views, a selfie is only a moment captured from a beautiful or enjoyable event of life. It should
remain like that. Personally, I would like to cut down anything that looks pompous from my
social media uses.
Week 13
Fill out the survey again on the next page – keep your results.
Answer the following questions:
12. What were your total scores for each subscale?
TOTAL SCORE TIME 2 Social Integration subscale: __30_______
TOTAL SCORE TIME 2 Emotional Connection subscale: __24_______
13. Have your results changed at all since the beginning of term?
Yes, my scores have changed, the numbers have increased on both the scales. This course
certainly taught me a lot of things about handling the traffic on social media. At the end of the
day social media can act as a live curriculum vitae and an individual can know many things

about us (Nai, 2915). Apart from it, social media solutions can be utilized for commercial
purposes as well. My outlook on the role of social media has changed drastically.
14. Do you feel that you answered differently this time as a result of what you have learned
in this course, why or why not?
I answered differently, to be precise, I answered more evenly. Before becoming a member of this
course I was not clear about my own social media personality. However, after spending quality
time with the course now most of my answers were balanced and I can see the clarity of ideas
in my head.
15. Do you think you have changed as an individual as a result of taking this course?

Yes, I learned to see myself objectively. I get this idea that others are constantly watching me on
social media. As a true professional, I should think more in terms of projecting myself more
wisely. This semi-supervised learning experience certainly added a scientific approach in my
temperament while addressing certain issues on social media.

References
Nai, D. (2915). Predicting Personality on Social Media with Semi-supervised Learning. IEE
Xplore, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6927620.
Shanab, E. (2015). The Role of Social Networking in the Social Reform of Young Society.
Yarmouk University,
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273060202_The_Role_of_Social_Networking_
in_the_Social_Reform_of_Young_Society.