Social Media is a wonderful thing.It connects us to millions of people via the internet from just a small screen in our pockets. Everyone has their own username, ideas, and beliefs. Many people use social media differently, myself included. People on social media use their account for things from advertisements, ranting about sports, to even attempting to 'Hook up' with random strangers. My experience with Social Media has more of a purpose than one night stands or promotions. It has truly changed my life.
Football
I played football all through high school and am currently playing football at the Division II level. Social media allowed me to achieve this. My dad and I had a lot of trouble trying to find schools to recruit me, so I took it upon myself. I used Hudl to create a highlight tape of my best plays and emailed it to coaches all across the country. I even "friend-ed" coaches on Facebook to try and get their attention. This allowed me to reach a global market of coaches that wanted players like me, and it made being recruited so much easier.
Twitter specifically helped me in many ways. On twitter I was able to follow coaches and have them see my highlight tape by looking at my bio. Twitter is where I met my future coaches at Augustana.
If it weren't for Social Media and the ability to spread my highlight tape all across the country, I may not have had the opportunity to go to a great college such as Augie and play at a high level. I would have never met the people whom I now call my coaches and friends. Social Media changed my life and gave me the opportunity to follow my dream of playing football, and go to a top notch university at the same time.
Love
Everyone who has social media has heard of the phrase 'Sliding into the DM's'. Many of my friends in high school and college have attempted to do this to girls, some being more successful than others. I am currently in a loving and incredible relationships with a girl whom I met online.
Before meeting her online, I had never seen or even heard of her in person. On Twitter, she had one day followed me, and I had followed her back since I noticed she went to the rival high school in the same town as mine. By simply looking at her page I could learn a lot about her. Later that year I did the very thing many of my other friends we're trying to do. I slid into her DMs. Its worked.
If it weren't for Twitter allowing us to make this initial connection and conversation, then I probably never would have met her. But thank goodness that Social Media helped me make this connection as later this month will be our one and a half year anniversary. Twitter brought me Love.
Who knows what can happen in just one post.
