Social Media Likes Speak Loudly




This blog is reflecting on a Ted Talk done by Jennifer Golbeck explaining why social media likes say more about a person than we think.



New York Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgWie9dnssU

The ted talk that I took the time to watch and learn about was titled “The Curly Fry Conundrum: Why Social Media “Likes Say More Than You Might think” by Jennifer Golbeck.  The talk was about how perspective employers and other companies can access many things on social media. Golbeck explained that from social media likes companies can tell a lot about a person and they use it in their hiring process.  Additionally, she explains how companies like Target use social media for advertising to their consumers. Being in the millennial generation I really took heed to this ted talk, with it being based on social media it struck my attention. In our everyday lives my generation and I go on and use a variety of different social media sites and most of us use them loosely. When I say loosely I mean that we post things on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as if we are in our own private world. This ted talk and many other examples emphasize how social media really works and how important it is for people to be careful with what they are posting and liking. To no surprise I was not shocked when Golbeck explained how much information companies can really get from the things that people liked on Facebook and how it indirectly spoke to their interest and hobbies. The ted talk really pushes how companies and future employers use social media but from personal experiences I understand how many other people use social media as well. In our generation people will resort to social media right away to look at a person’s post or their pictures, from these things people draw many assumptions as to the type of person they are dealing with. I think it would be best that people using social media sites be cautious to what they are doing and understand that they have to be careful and aware online.