I decided to interview my little sister, who is a sophomore in high school. I’ve noticed that my social media habits have changed a lot from high school to college, and I wanted to see how lowerclassmen use social media.

The main similarity between my sister’s social media age and mine is that we both have a habit of scrolling through our phones somewhat hourly. We also tend to post the same things: whenever we do something fun with friends, it’s someone’s birthday, etc. And, we both use social media primarily to keep in touch with people. Both of us also have our accounts set on private, and have met most of our followers, they have mutual friends, or they go to the same school as we do.

However, she checks her phone and scrolls more much more frequently than me. I think that this may be because our high school is relatively lenient on their phone policies, and my classes have gotten much harder and more  demanding, leaving me less time for social media. But I post more frequently than her, as she said she posts about once every two weeks.

We also use some different forms of social media. My sister has never had a Facebook account, and probably never will, while Facebook was my very first social media account. Almost none of her friends have Facebook accounts, because their generation came along a little after Facebook’s time. She also said that she and some of her friends still use Vine sometimes, which I actually deleted off of my phone a while ago. Oovoo is another social media platform that she mentioned (and I had no idea what it was). Apparently, it’s a video chatting app.

Lastly, my little sister uses Snapchat much more frequently than me. She said that Snapchat was her most used form of social media, while I simply keep up my streaks. Snapchat actually stresses me out sometimes, but my sister loves it.