Reading Reflection #3

Reading Reflection #3

Theme

1. The general theme of the book was dos and don’ts for your social media presence. This book gave useful tips on a variety of topics including how to design aspects of your social media accounts such as usernames, profile pictures, and goes into detail to explain how consistency can be a useful marketing strategy.

Connection

2. This booked enhanced what I was learning in class by giving me useful tips on how to create a better versions of my current social media. It gave me useful advice on improving my blogs too. It is going to make me think about the things that I say more now before I post them. This book has explained that we should think about the different ways people may interpret messages that we write. It also explained that we should think about the way things will be interpreted in the future. This caused me to think of a few things I may remove from my social media accounts because it has become outdated and may give someone the wrong impression about me.

Exercise

3. If I designed an exercise from this book, I would design it so that the requirements would be to follow tips 3, 4, & 8 and create a social media account using these steps or tips. It could be any combination of the tips, but different combinations could create unique differences among each other. Some of these differences could actually help us to really differentiate our profiles too.  

Biggest Surprise

4. My biggest surprise from the reading was the tip about using the same profile picture across all accounts. I thought that this would be strange, but the text suggests that using a consistent profile picture will help to create a consistent image of yourself. It said that this can make it easier for people to recognize your brand or image. I realized that this is true and is useful for brands that are currently marketing themselves.