Social Media Week

For this blog's topic, we were to do a week of social media postings. We had the options to choose Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, do a youtube video, or create a website portfolio. I wasn't necessarily excited about this project because I didn't see much benefit to it.  This view defiantly changed after completing this assignment.

For social media week i choose to use Facebook.  I choose Facebook because I already had an account and I need to finish it quickly.  I found ten companies and articles related to my field of study, which is Mechanical Engineering.  I choose companies from NASA to John Deere.  There are a lot of companies that need Mechanical Engineers and there are a lot of different rolls an engineer could play while working for a company.  I learned that Facebook and other social media sites can be helpful in finding a job that you would like.  They allow you to view a company without having to visit them on site.

These types of social media can be bad in some ways.  If there are pictures of you not doing the right thing or if you had an inappropriate status at some point, companies could see these pictures or statuses and decide to choose another candidate over you simply because they would not want you representing their company.  I learned that you need to know how to use a lot of different types of social medias and know what is out there about yourself.  After the start of this I went through and cleaned up my accounts, going back over a year and seeing some of the mistakes I had made since the creation of my accounts.