My Digital Life

Growing up I was always exposed to social media. I have an older sister that I watched grow up before me and experience everything first. I got to see what would be happening to me in two years. I got to see what junior high and high school would be like. I got to see what graduating and turning eighteen was going to be like. When my sister started junior high is when I started to see more of the social media. When I was in fifth grade my sister just started junior high. She got into MySpace and I tried my hardest to resist getting an account. I always hated following trends when it came to social media things like that. The next year we got cell phones and she was huge on the texting. She had to get unlimited because she was running up the bill. I on the other hand didn’t even have texting enabled on my phone. I thought that texting and MySpace were both just dumb things for teenagers and preteens to share their boring lives that they think that everyone finds interesting or even remotely cares about. people would always talk about some funny post or a fun game on facebook and it would just irritate the hell out of me. texting just seemed stupid because there is a way faster way to communicate with another person when it isn't possible talk to them face to face, if you know what I mean. It just didn't make sense to me for someone to take three minutes on a text when they could take twenty seconds. When I got to seventh grade was about the time that I got texting enabled on my phone. the only reason that I did get it was because I got a girlfriend that wanted me to text her all the time. Later on that was why I ended up getting a Facebook account. except that it was a different girlfriend. The first Facebook was in ninth grade. Unfortunately I forgot the password to both the account and the email that it was attached to. Later on in Junior year I made a new Facebook due to yet another girlfriend. This account I finally actually use and didnt forget the