I decided to interview my mom for my mini-interview because of how her use of social media differs from mine. Even though my mom uses Facebook and Instagram, she uses them for very different purposes than I do. I think that a lot of people think that if you use any social media, for example Facebook, you use it the same way everyone else does, but after this interview I figured out that assumption is far from the truth. I use Facebook for the purpose of keeping up with my friends and posting pictures in order for people to keep up with my life, but my mom uses it for those reasons and more. Yes, my mom uses it to keep up with her friends now and her friends from high school and college, but she also uses it to keep up to speed on news stories, to communicate with her friend who lives overseas, and to find new recipes to make. By “liking” certain pages like Fox News, CNN and Food Network, my mom is able to gain information that she otherwise would not have as easy access to. I use Instagram to again keep up with my friends and post pictures, and my mom mentioned that she uses it for those purposes too, but in addition she also uses Instagram to follow fashion blogs in order to make shopping easier. In Atlanta, going to the mall has gotten pretty dangerous and many people won’t go alone, because of that my mom pretty much only shops at boutiques, which means she doesn’t get to see the fashion of the big department stores. By following fashion blogs, my mom is able to see what is in style and can easily buy items that the bloggers post online, taking away having to go to any store to buy them.