The Influence Of Being On Social Media

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In my daily routines of being a “Bitch”, I love to search the web and stalk people. From Instagram to Facebook, Snapchat and twitter, I am all over it. I have the tendency to be on social media honestly a lot. My day is kind of revolved around being on social media. I mean having a smart phone in your hands gives you the temptation to go on social media. Form the time that I arise from my sleep, the first thing I do is check my phone, when I get ready I check my phone, when I am walking from class to class, or even in class I will be on my phone. There is not a time that I stay away from being on social media unless in a serious situation, or I am studying. But on my breaks I be checking my phone and searching for things on the web. I am mostly interested in
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We are so attached to our phones that relationships of talking is not the same. We tend to communicate with text messages, direct messaging, talking on the phone. On Facebook I spend about maybe twenty minutes on and off depending on what I am doing. I either change my profile picture, add pictures to my timeline, watch what others are posting about their daily livings, and or watch vine videos. I tend to go off and on with Facebook just because it is slowly not being active or captivating to me because some people just come for drama. And of course everyone loves a little read of drama, but that can get really old, like the media is not wanting to know your whole life story but I guess all people know how to do it show off the messy parts of their lives to I guess entertain people. On Snapchat, I would spend maybe fifteen minutes but not on a daily bases just because I would only go on either to post something for everyone to see what I was doing, or to watch what others were doing in their day. But with Instagram, I would be on their for hours of the day! Not even posting pictures, but watching makeup videos. Watching videos of hot guys! And just stalking within

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