I decided to interview my mom, whose social media use is much different from my own. She has had a Facebook for about six years and an Instagram for about two weeks, which she uses as a way to post pictures from special occasions and keep up with her friends and family. I would say that I check social media about fifty times a day as a habit while my mom says that she checks her social media maybe twice a day, once in the morning and once at night.

My mom has never really been that big on social media. She has always had a Facebook, but it is very rare that she should ever post on it. She says she like to have it to see what all of her old friends are up to. I was extremely surprised about two weeks ago when I went on Instagram to see that I had a follow request from my mom. I would have never expected her to get an Instagram, but she said all of her friends are switching from Facebook to Instagram so she wanted to do the same. She said that she feels like people post too much on Facebook and that they tend to be less boastful on Instagram. I guess this shows how social medias are broadening to include different types of users. I was extremely shocked when just last week my grandmother, whose only social media is email, decided to get an Instagram.

While neither my mom or my grandmother have posted anything yet on Instagram, they say that they like to use it as a way to keep in touch with their close friends and family. While people my age tend to follow many people that they barely know, I have noticed that people my mom’s age only follow and accept follow request from a more exclusive group of people that they know very well.