Out of all the archiving technologies available, I find myself focusing on Spotify, Instagram, and Twitter. I dabble in other social medias, but I find myself most concerned about branding when it comes to these three. There is a fine line between trying to appear transparent to the world to better your career path and oversharing in the form of borderline offensive statements or images. I think this idea is reflected in how I use online archiving technologies.
Spotify is my favorite platform to portray what I want the world to see and hear. I am uncommonly odd about what I allow to be viewed on my Spotify. Because music has been the cornerstone of my life, I find this to be the most influential in my day-to-day life. Sounds play a massive part in what I want to do with my life, and I think that’s why I value streaming platforms so much. I have quite a few playlists that I hold a little too close to share, so they are on private viewing. I believe a life can be fully illustrated with just a few playlists, so I try to let that ideology shine through on my Spotify. Instagram comes as a close second to Spotify. In my head, the two coincide perfectly to show the world the brand I try to illustrate. I post videos of songs I have written as a fun way to keep people updated on what I’m doing musically, and I find it is also a good way to timestamp my life whenever I scroll through my profile later. Lately I have been mainly posting pictures that I take with my film camera. The entire process of film photography brings me so much joy, and I like that to shine through in what I post. I keep my Instagram incredibly clean in terms of obscene language or general inappropriate behavior. I recognize that an Instagram profile could be the difference between getting a job or not. I mainly utilize Instagram as a visual way to represent the things I see in my own life. Twitter is my least favorite of the archiving technologies, but I also think it’s one of the more accurate ways to archive ideas. I used Twitter mostly in high school. I found it to be the only resource where I could stay up-to-date on memes and politics equally. I enjoyed the social circle feeling of it because you really only follow a few celebrities alongside all of your friends. I was a bit less careful of what I posted on Twitter in terms of letting my sarcasm and true thoughts shine through. I have since made my account private because you just never know what can come back to hurt you later. In general, I mainly use archiving technologies that won’t be able to offend people in the future and hurt my chances of getting an internship or a job. I place a lot of importance in brand imaging, and I think that all begins at the social media level.
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