“Ayo, writing an article about TikTok cheeeeeck.” TikTok is so popular that you probably read that sentence in a valley girl voice. You have all at least have seen a TikTok video once on either the app itself or on another platform being reposted. Or maybe you are a full time TikTok user and you’ve created a few videos yourself and got on the For You page. Or even maybe, we have a TikTok celebrity in the class. Besides that, TikTok is growing to become one of the largest used platforms of the year and it isn’t slowing down any time soon.

TikTok’s undeniable growth has skyrocketed them to surpass app downloads of major apps like Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and so on. With the way the app is performing and the usage of different people from around the world; I wouldn’t be surprised if TikTok surpasses WhatsApp in download count by the end of 2020. The app allows users to fully express their creativity to a whole new level memes have never seen before. We have multiple users making funny scenarios for us to watch and continuing growing the usage rate of the application.

Although, users on the app don’t get paid for their creative content. I am sure one day the following will be big enough to allow TikTok to earn a certain amount of money and grow the app to become far bigger and more diverse in the future.

We’ve all been there. You wake up, open facebook and see hateful things on your profile or someone commenting unnecessary things on your Instagram profile. So you think: “I”m just going to do a mini cleanse from all social media.” Wrong! This recent article I found talks about what to do when you’re feeling like enough is enough. I’ve never felt the need to completely delete all my social media but I can imagine there’s been a lot of people that have needed to go through that. In this article, she talks about the three main platforms: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. One thing i didn’t know about Facebook is that there is an unfollow button, you’re still friends with the person but their post/shares no longer pops up on your feed instead you would need to click on their profile to view everything. In my opinion, Instagram is the easiest to tailor to your likes because you can follow whoever and you can even follow hashtags. You can follow the “#happy” and probably see a bunch of happy things that will block out all the other unnecessary things. One helpful thing i’ve found on Instagram is the ability to disable comments! Twitter is by far the most uncontrollable social media platform because people are able to retweet things and even certain hashtags and randoms can pop up on your feed but you can always block and unfollow or you can mute certain words.

Whatever it is you’re going through, remember to keep going forward and always look at the glass half full! Social media is part of our world and is a necessity nowadays.

Instructions:

One you have been added as an author to the course blog, you will be able to make your weekly posts. An invite should be sent to your FSU email by January 16th. Click on the link to make your account.

Each week, you should make a separate post on each platform, including this one. Blog posts should typically be between 50 and 300 words. You may not use the same captions you use for Facebook and Twitter; all three posts can, however, be about the same topic/theme/article/etc. Write your post here before Sunday at 11:59pm, starting on January 19th.

As you make your posts each week, remember that there is a Social Media URL Form you must turn in at the end of the semester. You can add in the links to your posts as you make them, or you can fill in the links at the end of the semester. Please check the links to be sure they work before you turn in the form.