I decided to interview my mom about the way she uses social media because I know that our uses are much different. She has had a facebook for years to keep up with her friends, but she hardly ever posts. Now that me and my brother are in college, her main use of facebook is to scroll through her timeline looking for pictures that we are tagged in and saving them to her camera roll. My brother and I always get mad at her because she will “like” every picture we are tagged in even when its been posted by one of our friends that she doesn’t even know.

Her new source of social media is Instagram. She said that she joined instagram because all of her friends have it, and all of me and my brother’s friends have it, and she wants to keep up with everyone. The only times she will post is when I pick out the picture, the edit, and the caption and post it for her. My mom says she has no idea how to operate the app and leaves up to me to post, because she wants her friends and family to see what she is up to. She is still the classic mom that tries to “zoom in” when I show her a picture on instagram, even though I tell her every time that that isn’t possible.

Social media is very different for different ages. For example, my mom says she will check her social media once or maybe twice a day, usually before she goes to bed, as opposed to me, who checks my social media probably 100 times a day.