MY CURRENT USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND HOW I WILL USE IT IN THE FUTURE

Social Media Effective Use

 

I joined Facebook social media in 2010. With the intent of making good use of it as I would reconnect with old friends all over the world and basically felt good about it. Although I would come across friends who were keen on knowing how I was doing family and workwise I would prefer to limit the information I were to post on Facebook. At the back of my mind, divulging more information about me meant someone somewhere would be able to enter my inbox, take advantage and manage to use the information against me. So I would make sure the information posted is limited as much as possible. To top it all up, I would be excited to post issues to do with my personal development such as achievements academically and I would also ask friends to help me search for a job as I was not happy in the job I was in. I would only post such sentiments to personal friends which meant privately. I was also skeptic of letting many people on Facebook know me so I would ensure I stayed as private as possible. Although I am a well-known political figure in my country, the parliament contributions and informative knowledge on current issues and of voters in my constituency made me become a household name. I also took care in selecting friends I would network with. In addition I would not propose friendship to strangers though I would know of their high profiles neither would I push myself to know of other informative sections advertised on Facebook. I was in the dark and in a way refused to learn more. Little did I know Facebook was one of the tools I could use to profile my personal brand to potential employers?

 I joined LinkedIn social media early this year but was very fascinated of how others were posting their profiles really showing they were talking to would be possible employers. Frankly I didn’t know how to market my brand. I felt I needed to look deeply into my LinkedIn profile since I'm at dissertation stage to complete my degree MA international Relations and the World Order. I now know the importance of LinkedIn and the way to boost my career prospects. The networking and Employability course I'm doing currently has taught me how to play the game of posting my personal brand on networks in a confident manner really laying out all that an employer may need to know of the brand I am. As a person in the know that social media is the network to portray the brand I'm made out of, I happen to be at the urge to let the world know.

 I do use twitter and to post my daily work schedule. As an Ambassador representing my country in a foreign land, I have realized people back in my country are starved of information of the country leadership. However people need to know and with that I have attracted quite a following. I intend to really do a motivating lay out of my profile on LinkedIn as currently there is no good work done on my personal brand.