By: Atharva Pandey
National/World Editor
In today’s world, social media is one of the most telling indicators of one’s entire personality. Each app has its appeal and attracts different people. Some people look to lose themselves through doom scrolling while others look for sources of validation through video making. Your favorite social media app can reveal surprising insights about how you travel through the world.
YouTube watchers are experts at procrastination. Instead of doing your homework, you magically find yourself watching a video about basketball or the weirdest conspiracy theories about outer space. You fool yourself into thinking that you are being productive by learning about the best tips to write an essay quickly instead of actually writing the essay, which is due in two hours.
If your favorite app is Snapchat, you probably think of yourself as an award-winning director, analyzing the lighting of each picture you send. You are insanely concise. Instead of saying, “I am tired,” you simply send a picture and put “tired” in the caption. You have had streaks going for years with people you don’t even know.
TikTok users have a terrible sleep schedule, usually getting into bed near 2:30 in the morning. You cannot focus on an elementary school-level math assignment for more than 20 seconds. You require stimulation at all times and are well-versed in the deepest crevices of the internet. Even though your screen time is off the charts, you try to convince yourself that you learn valuable information from TikTok, which would have been true if you did not forget said information right after the next scroll.
If your favorite app is Twitter, you love chaos and thrive on watching other people argue. The topic could be anything, from why a player left their sports team to whether or not chocolate is better than vanilla. You have hard drives full of bad humor, out-of-pocket memes, and bizarre hot takes. Overall, you love the drama that Twitter entails.
LinkedIn users are either millennials or think way too highly of themselves. Your first thought after accomplishing something is to figure out what section you are going to put it in under your profile. You claim that the only reason you have the app is for forming “connections.” You imagine everybody patting you on the back and telling you that you are the best when you post your new internship at an obscure company..
These days people young and old are simply obsessed with their phones, making it hard to connect with the ones who are simply infantilized by the power they hold in their hands. Social media is so commonly used that it serves as a better tool for reading people than a personality test. If you find yourself on the outside looking in on this problem, utilizing the effects of social media can make you more powerful than the CEO overlords who design these apps.