Growing up in a generation where technology is constantly revolving, encouraged individuals like myself to want to know the latest trends or updates. For instance, once social media platforms were developed and became well known, I remember everyone in my age group including myself that joined and created accounts despite what our parents might have thought. But in a way now, I am happy I was a bit defiant of my parents’ wishes because the practice of being involved in social media has enabled me to communicate or connect with others throughout the world and I can say although I was young and immature these were some of the best times of my life. Besides all the possible reasons or purposes towards social media usage, the majority of times I enjoy viewing content that allows me to feel inspired in some kind of way or from a particular person. Having this specific mindset or perspective could lead common individuals to automatically filter what they only want to detect. Doing so I will become in the habit of filtering in what I’d rather prefer to pay more attention to, compared to the messages I decide to filter out and ignore. In addition, regardless of the number of individuals or messages, we encounter through our environment or social media every day. Most of our attention is driven by physical, perceptual and psychological exposures. For example, being a full-time college student always on campus, I’m physically aware of all the different types of posters and flyers around every building I walk in, so are other students or visitors that attend this University. Also while being class, some teachers will even illustrate a video or clip that relates to our lecture from other sources such as YouTube, which allows me and my classmates to be perceptually exposed by the content we are watching and hearing all at the same time. Another scenario of being psychologically exposed is every time I or anyone who receives new information from a media message, our minds are set to either store the data in two different routes (central and peripheral). All in all, myself is a great example of how many people devote their time and effort into social media and connecting around the world without realizing how big of an influence it can be to our lives.
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