After reading the Buck article, I began to realize and form some questions of my own to ask Anna, my partner, for the social media community assignment. The first thing that really stood out to me in the article was the idea of consciously keeping track of the number of friends or followers you have. This was a section that quoted Ronnie about his “number index” that he is so closely aware of (14). I would be curious to ask Anna if she ever paid any attention to the number of friends she has connected with her Facebook and what she thinks about that number. From a personal stand point, I have a few hundred friends, people whom I’ve met and added over the years, but I would like to lower the number and reduce the amount of pictures and posts I scroll over on my news feed. I do not want to see every post of a girl who was in my math class sophomore year of high school. When people un-friend me on Facebook, I do not take it personally. I don’t mind the number of friends I have to ‘look popular’ but to some others that may be very personal. It would be interesting to get Anna’s opinion on the matter and see why exactly she feels that way.

A great question I stole from the class brainstorming activity was the question: Do you have any social media habits? If so what are they and if you don’t believe you do, what do you consider social media habits among others? This question must have stem from the section in Buck’s article where it describes how social media influences the routine our daily lives. “He checked Twitter constantly from the website, seeing it as a habit, part of his daily routine, and something he did when he was bored” (22). I think this is very interesting because when I briefly looked over Anna’s Facebook page, I observed that she rarely posts and in that same way I am similar. I will get on social media sites to see what is going on with other people but I do not share information about myself as often and when I do, it is brief. I would consider this a ‘social media habit’ but I’m not sure that others would. I am curious to hear what Anna answers and compare her page to my own.