Haley Trecarichi
During my time in Barcelona, I used a lot of social media. The social media site that I used the most during the last few months is Instagram. I used Instagram posts and Instagram stories to share my experiences in Europe with my friends who were still in the United States. In addition to Instagram, I used Facebook and Snapchat. Every Sunday while I was abroad, I would post in an album on Facebook around twenty photos of my friends and I abroad from the previous week. I posted about Barcelona, Prague, Amsterdam, Switzerland, etc. Every new place I visited I shared a post about it on Facebook. Many of my family members are on Facebook so that was an easy way for me to share photos and experiences with my family. I used Snapchat to communicate with my friends at home and my friends who were abroad with me. Snapchat is more of an everyday app and less formal app that I use for communication rather than to post and update my followers. My most popular post was my post on Instagram when I was in Interlaken, Switzerland. I shared the post below. This post got the most likes out of all my instagram posts while I was abroad. I think the last months that I spend abroad really widened my social media platforms. As far as my digital identity, I think studying abroad and living in Barcelona gave me more of a following of people from different locations. I met people from all over the world and I also met people within my school from other places in the United States. Connecting with new people broadened my social media platform. The narrative displayed on my social media platforms during my experience abroad is a narrative of exploring. I think my posts from Barcelona and other trips I took in Europe, show me as a young adult expanding my horizons and broadening my experiences to travel to new places and learning more about completely different cultures. I think my posts display how I got to learn about new places not only by taking classes abroad, but by actually getting to travel to different landmarks and visit different important sites.
Here is a photo I posted on instagram of my friends and I in Switzerland.
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