How would you respond to this student in a discussion post with both praise and constructive criticism?

Social media began with sites like MySpace and LinkedIn,We all know that MySpace allowed us to connect with our friends and to share our cool coding skills and what songs we liked. We wanted to add more friends to show those friends how cool our pages were. This was just the beginning. LinkedIn was a social media platform for jobs and businesses. Less flashy than Myspace because it focused on the professional side of life instead of the fun and creative side. Once programmers learned that we like to connect with each other and loved talking to each other all in one platform, a few sites started popping up, claiming to be the NEXT BIG THING. Eventually we all found Facebook which was so much more simple than MySpacebut had all the tools that we wanted like chat, games, and sharing things with our friends.

In my opinion, Facebook and Twitter are the same things. They are both for sharing ideas, but Twitter is more of a platform to send a simple idea or reply a simple idea to someone else, without the picturesand videos and nonsense that Facebook has. Linked in is more for the business professional who wants to connect with businesses or for people who have a business who want to only see business related content. Youtube is for literally everyone. People subscribe to things in social media in order to stay up to date on whatever their interests are. Whether its a DIY channel on Youtube, a small business on LinkedIn or Facebook, or a popular celebrity in Twitter. Everyone wants to be in the know and have the most up to date information at all times.

Hashtags was a really big thing a few years back because it allowed people to make one tag and then it would connect people to the same type of content with the click of a mouse or push of a button. If I wanted to #DIY, it would allow someone to click that #DIY and then see what other people have done in the DIY world. It was genius marketing but then people would make hashtags to start polluting the real hashtags.

A business would use hashtags in order to make awareness of products and services because you can use many keywords that could link to your page. This expands your business further than just the target audience that you originally intended to go for. They could also measure their social media effectiveness by watching how much traffic they get through certain platforms and how users use each platform whether it be alike of Facebook or LinkedIn, a retweet on Twitter, or a comment on any of the other social media platforms out there.

Social media is all about gossiping. It is all about who knows what and how they want to share it. It is disgusting and it is why I use Facebook only for buying and selling products. I don't make posts, and if I do, its more to spread information so that people will stop spreading lies and hate. As Christians, we are not here to hate our neighbors or talk down on someone, we are supposed to bring each other closer to Jesus and social media can be used in that same way, just like how they currently use it for hate speech.-DM