I decided to interview my sister because she is similar in age to me but we have totally different personalities, so I was curious to see if that could cause us to have different social media habits.

She started off by telling me her favorite social media platforms are Instagram and Snapchat which is very similar to me, as those are the only two I use daily. I soon realized that we have similarities and differences in our social media habits. For example, we both check Instagram daily but rarely post. However, my idea of rarely posting is once a month and her’s is about four times a year. We both use Snapchat to keep in contact with people, but I use it more for friends and she uses it more for family. We both agreed that we find ourselves using social media more when we’re bored.

We differ mostly in that she is willing to give up social media and I am not. For Lent, she gives up social media and will randomly decide to get off social media for a time. I, however, really wouldn’t know what to do if I didn’t have social media to turn to during my times of boredom.  She is also very picky about who she lets follow her, where as I will let someone follow me as long as I have heard of them or they are a friend of a friend.

This probe was an interesting one because it was cool to look at someone else’s social media habits and compare them to your’s. It gave me a chance to reflect on my habits and see if I could improve or change the way I use social media in any way.