Digital Social Interaction Diary

I got over a thousand notifications regarding some type of communication within my two day diary. This is a lot more than I expected since it was two normal days and nothing unusual was going on. Within this time period, over half of them were messages or snaps sent through Snapchat, which was primarily keeping up with friends and what they were doing at that time. I'm not sure if this counts as communication because most snaps sent were just a picture of my friend's surroundings or parts of their face. I chose to talk to these friends through Snapchat because I do not have their cell phone numbers. These friends can range in how close we are, but most of them are good friends, some merely acquaintances. Another heavy portion of my messages were iMessages in my family group chat of me, my mom, and my sister. This conversation was just keeping up with each other and filling out paperwork, which is not very fun. These are the people I am closest to, and my mom chose to interact with me and my sister in iMessage because she has both of our phone numbers and it was information that we both needed to know. I use iMessage to talk to people who I am closer to, or close enough to have their phone number. Even though it is pretty easy to get someone's phone number, I see it as a more personal method of communication. The rest of my communication was scattered in various social media platforms, like Instagram and TikTok. This was just me send videos or pictures to people who I think would enjoy them, and they responding the same way. I was on these platforms because I was bored, and only sent media when it reminded me of certain people. I don't attach any personal communication to either of these platforms. In my two day diary I did not schedule any plans that were offline events, but I have done that in the past, and it is usually me and roommates meeting up for lunch, or me inviting friends to ODU to go to football games or stay the weekend. This diary changed the way I view my interactions, because I did not think that I spoke to any of these people as much as I actually do. I am definitely aware that I would not be as close with any of these people if I was not this active on social media, so I do not plan to change that any time soon.