I joined the Facebook revolution my sophomore year of high school. My intention of
joining it was to have a place to connect with my friends outside of school. For the time I have
been using Facebook my intentions have been fulfilled but I also got more than expected out
of the service. I found my cousin from my mom’s side of the family who resides in Singapore.
Since the time when I added him as friend I have been talking to him about life over there and since he has never been to America before I exchanged stories about my life and how things
work in the states. I found out that he is about to graduate from is schooling there and he wants
to fly out to America so I am trying to have him be here in time for my graduation. It is very
refreshing to learn more about my native culture because I have become fully Americanized.
Social media serves abundant purposes in my personal life. Using Facebook I have
strengthened my friendships with friends in the country and out of the country. People are
used to hearing connecting with friends online mostly but social media had leaked over into
my education. Countless times I have used YouTube to learn the day’s math lesson that I have
not caught on to. Last year for the final exam in trigonometry I really had no idea what I was
doing but thanks to a night on YouTube I learned everything on the study guide and ended
up doing well on the final. To now understand macroeconomics I listen to the songs that our
teacher shows us in class on YouTube. In my spare time I read a few forum sites ranging from
cars, blackberry devices, and bodybuilding. I do take caution over what I read but overall I have
learned many things from the sites through members who have more experience than I do.