Welcome everyone, to this blog that I have entitled:
'The Perks of Procrastination'
After jostling it up with 'Lazy Days Spent', 'JustYourAverageBlog' and 'Miles of Clouded Hell' (Short song quotation from It's Time - Imagine Dragons) it somehow just came up as the one I filled into the box that said 'title here'.
Why Perks of Procrastination I hear the probable 1 person that could be bothered to get this far down the page cry. Well, the answer to that is simple, yet complex, all in one. Procrastination is all around us, you shouldn't be reading this blog here now, you probably have something that needs doing. I shouldn't be writing this blog now, I certainly have buckets of revision to wade my way through. And so, fellow reader, we are all procrastinating right here and now. However perhaps this blog you have stumbled on could be a certain 'perk' to this procrastinating enjoyment.
Now, I'm no genius to writing blogs, but a topic idea for my first blog post really did strike me as difficult to choose. It was either me sit here and just furiously type an essay full of words about me, for you to read, but hopefully that will all be found out through all of the blogs. I could have done a '50 FACTS' tag, but that just seemed to cliche so to speak. And so, I settled on the 'Social Media' idea, as you can learn a lot about a person through their 'mediums of media' (hehe) and such without really knowing anything about them. Also it gives me the opportunity to dust off my reviewing skills for various applications on my phone.
Social Media
I like every other teenager have got some sort of social media on my phone. From sending horrific selfies to each other via the medium of snapchat, to having my own little profile on Facebook, I am all over social media.
On this very phone, I have Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Pintrest, Youtube, Snapchat, Spotify, Blogger, Email (not really sure if that one counts but oh well...), BBM, iMessage and Whatsapp just to name a few.
I think that for today I will do a very short review on just 'the big 5'.
Facebook
Facebook used to be such a good form of communication between people, and allows you to upload statuses and photos to your profile for all of your friends to see. Did you spot the 'used to' in that sentence?
With adults invading this platform of old brilliance, and usually posting 'morning after' statements every single morning, teenagers from across the world have fled the site in sheer terror (not really, but we'll go with that) in search for a more 'cool' place to hang.
Facebook, I'm sorry, but 3/10.
Tumblr
I love tumblr, well who doesn't, right? The harsh truth is, a lot of people don't, and I think I can see why the don't.
Tumblr is like an alternate dimension of cat memes, fandom raving and 'hipsta' quotes. It literally consists of 95% those 3 things and 5% other.
Tumblr, for expressive teenagers 9/10
But sadly, for the greater good, 6/10
Instagram
Instagram is the picture medium in which users upload photos in return for likes, followers and 're-grams' (like a less famous re-tweet basically, like the Louis Walsh to Simon Cowell if you will). I think that it is a great platform for photos and communication (allowing you to 'Insta-Direct' someone and talk with only that person, or larger groups of people if you so wish).
But unfortunately unruly fathers are battling their way onto the site, and although you can turn their accounts to private whilst they aren't looking, they find a way to change it back every time. They are multiplying by the second, with their 'hilarious' embarrassing dad photos.
Dads, stop killing are platform! 6/10
Snapchat
Snapchat allows you to send 'Snaps' to either 1 person, a group of people, or everyone in your contacts by setting it as your story, for a set period of time ranging from 1-10 seconds. Once this time has ended, the recipient isn't able to access the photo or video.
This is allowing millions of teenagers worldwide to take the most horrific double-chin selfies and not care if their friends see them. However then we have to take into consideration the dreaded 'screenshot'. Yes, people are notified by the system when someone has 'screenshotted' their photo but it doesn't do anything to stop them from happening!
Snapchat, Snap out of Screenshotting (Did you see what I did there!?) 8/10
Twitter
What can I say about Twitter that people don't know already? Twitter is in some cases the only circumstance in which parents and children can both have accounts on the same platform. Celebrities have accounts on twitter. You can chat, post statuses, videos, photos, personalise your profile, what isn't their to like?
Anyone Can Use It and pretend to be ANYONE.
It's horrifically addictive.
140 Character Limit makes all spk lyk tis.
Obsessive Hashtagging.
Twitter - 9/10
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