New Social Media Project Proposal

Well, fellow bloggers.. To kick off this summer term, my psychology professor has asked that I start a blog! During this course (PSYC390R - Psychology of Social Media) we will be using new social media platforms and studying (obviously) the psychology behind it all! Pretty exciting, eh?! As for myself, I have never used instagram before. And seeing how every single one of my friends seems to gawk at the fact that I don't have one yet, I see this as a wonderful opportunity to finally begin instagraming! We'll see how it goes!

Here are a few of the preliminary assignment details:

New Social Media Project Proposal

Select a social media tool that you have not previously used. Your proposal should include:

1. The name of and link to the website of the new social media tool you will be using this term.
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/

2. Describe what you will have to do to sign up for and start using the new social media tool.
To sign up, I just log in using my facebook account (Thanks to Social-Media Platforming)

3. Why you chose this particular social media tool.
All of my friends use this platform, and try convincing me to use it too

4. Why you haven't used this tool previously.
I haven’t used it previously because I didn't want to have more social media platforms to check every day. Using multiple social-media platforms seems like a hassle to me

5. What you will be using this new social media tool for.
I will be using Instagram to post pictures of the few exciting things I have time to do while studying here at BYU-Hawaii

6. What you hope to gain from the experience of using this new social media tool.
I hope I like it. It’s pretty neat that Instagram can link to my facebook and upload photos directly to it without my having to post the same picture on both sites by myself. Seems very user-friendly. I hope to gain another perspective into social-media platforms (particularly a more visual one with Instagram) and how they are used. I will be looking for both the advantages and disadvantages of the platform during this term.