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I always try to write or type. I’ve also started journaling . Most of the time I keep my feelings bottled up but I recently started to journal to help clear my mind. I need to write, read, and communicate especially with myself during breaks and downtime. Journaling is my  way of understanding myself and the things that happen in life.

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I constantly write and type. I’ve recently started journaling regularly - for about two or three weeks. I have twenty four pages of content for my journal alone. I also have a dream journal, and different notes to track different things. I need to write, read, and communicate constantly - even during breaks and downtime. Journaling is my  way of understanding myself and the things that happen in life.

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Wechat is one of the most freuquently used communication tool in China and Chinese from different ages use it to communicate with each other online. You could use it to video phone with your family and you could also use it to communicate with the company members since there is a specific feature related to it. As you could see the 34 meaning that I have 34 unread message. Also, you could make post in wechat to show your tracks and daily life like facebook. However, I think nowdays, young group tend to use wechat more instead of making face to face communication

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Whatsapp is my choice since it allows me to contact with my family members all around the world for free. I use this app everyday to communicate with my cousins and it keeps us all close. It also saves photos and media and is easy to navigate.

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I have made the New York Times Mini Crossword part of my daily routine, It used to be more fun back when Wordle was at it's peak and more of my friends were doing the mini cross word as well. We would compare times and often get pretty competitive, sometimes chastising one another for the clue that stumped us the most. Now I'm the only one of my friends who still does the mini crossword every day and my friends are tired of hearing about how 1 down really through me through a loop at 7 am.

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I often use Spotify in my day-to-day life. I think it is a great way to express yourself through music to your friends. Spotify gives us the opportunity to follow your friends and view their types of music. In addition to this, they have added features where you can blend your music with that of any of your friends to make a unique playlist. Though Spotify is a great app to use for music and the sharing of music, it lacks in means of communication. You can send music through text messages, though you cannot message your friends on the app itself. I like that this app offers more than just music, that being podcasts, meditations, etc.; on the contrary, I would say that adding a means of messaging your friends on this app might make it even better.

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I often use Discord to chat with my friends and other people around campus (I can't upload a screenshot for the sake of privacy). One of the servers I'm in has helped me meet most of the friends I know in Stony Brook, and the app has generally helped me come out of my shell. While Discord itself may sometimes not feel as intimate as talking in person, since we use it as a messaging system we can easily organize meetups.

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Youtube is an app that I use often, to be entertained or to learn how to do something. It is very social, with people making videos of their own interest, which you can comment and the owner of a channel can socialize with their viewers to see what video they should make next. For the community, it skys the limit, there is a video for everyones interest. It doesn't close off any public interaction at all. If you like to sky dive or work on cars or anything there is a video for you to enjoy.

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An app that I use pretty often is YouTube, and it is an app that allows users to have more creative ability with their social interaction. Creators can post any type of content that they prefer, whether it be through videos, polls, pictures, or livestreams. There are many different communities all over the platform, from gaming content to makeup tutorials, so there is likely something on YouTube for everyone. There are not many types of public interaction that are closed off from YouTube, as you can interact in almost any way you can think of.

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Apple music is not really known for being a social experience. I like that it is a very direct music app that allows the user to keep their music in a clear log no gimmicks. I would argue that apple music offers no community. It is straight forward and although it does have an option where you can follow your friends, that is not a feature that I use frequently. It closes off the interactions of a feed. Most music applications have a feed where you can discover new music and see what your friends are listening to as the main page. But what I like about apple music is that the home page is your library.

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An app I constantly use is soundcloud. I use this for music and it is one of the more direct ways for artists to share their music. It can be offered to the entire music community since it is easy to both upload and listen to.

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This is a screenshot from the application spotify on my laptop. It shows what I am currently listening to and what my friends are also listening to. I like spotify, because I can listen to so many different playlist and find new music and also listen to podcast. I can also see what my friends are listening to and we can talk about our different music taste. Spotify connects people to popular and indie singers and songs. It allows people to relax and get a break from the world through music.

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Spotify is consistently my most used app on all of my devices. A music platform like Spotify makes it incredibly easy to discover, listen, and share music with your friends, family, acquaintances, or just about anyone. It offers a community that connects artists to their fans.

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An app I use a lot is Spotify. Music is a way for me to get out my emotions. I like spotify since I am also able to see some of my friends playlists and see what they are listening to.

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The app I use most is musi. It has access to all the videos on youtube, so you can easily search up any song and add it to your playlist. This app makes it easier for me when I add one song from a particular artist, it automatically starts playing the artist's entire playlist, or songs from artists with a similar style of music. This app has introduced me to so many new artists and music genres that I didn't know I would love.

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An app I use daily is Spotify. I love listening to music, I listen to music throughout the day, and I think it's a good way to connect with others. A cool feature of the app is collaborative playlists where you and your friends with can create your playlists together even if you're not in the same room. It's a great way to learn about new music ad share music.

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An app I use daily is Spotify. I love listening to music, I listen to music throughout the day, and I think it's a good way to connect with others. A cool feature of the app is collaborative playlists where you and your friends with can create your playlists together even if you're not in the same room. It's a great way to learn about new music ad share music.

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The app I use the most is YouTube Music. The YouTube Music contains the most completed music stream. The power of this software is that all videos and music on Youtube will be included in YouTube Music's music library. This allows me to listen to the works of many niche artists or cover songs on the locked screen.

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Discord is one of the most frequent app that I use these days because the server feature allows people to meet different people across the globe of the same interests. I made an art server and we slowly gained over 1k artists over time. It is an amazing platform to meet new people and talk to friends. The voice call and video call features are easy to use and there's also screenshare feature to watch a movie together or something.

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My favorite social media platform is Instagram because I am always building my community on my account. I love interacting with my followers and getting feedback from them regarding health and fitness. I post polls, questions and quizzes on my story for my followers to engage with and I also communicate through direct message, or "DM". As with any online social interaction, it isn't the same as talking to someone face to face, but it allows people to connect with one another on a different level. I think it is very important in modern day because it is also good for marketing purposes and it gives people the ability to share a picture, video or idea that can reach the whole world in seconds.

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An application that I frequently use is Twitter. I don't have many social interactions on here myself. I have a few friends on here that I became friends with through Twitter and through my boyfriend who was the one that finally convinced me to make a Twitter account after years of not wanting to. While Twitter isn't my favorite social media application., I do find myself on it quite often and find myself enjoying my time spent on the app. There are lots of different communities on Twitter so there is something for everyone. As far as closing off public interactions, I haven't really been Twitter shut down any interactions.

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This app right here is very important to me. This is LinkedIn. I use this on a daily basis now that I am applying to internships and jobs for once I graduate college. The type of social interaction this app offers is more of a professional interactions. Individuals look to network on a professional level here as they're typically looking for jobs, internships and full time offers on this platform. The type of community on this application are typically individuals that are in a settled position, individuals looking for new jobs, and recent graduates looking to network to get their foot in the door with companies. Like I said it's more of a professional community with more professional interactions. The public interactions that are closed off on this application are posts that are more personalized; people generally don't talk about their daily life here, or where they're going for vacation or anything of that nature. That type of content is more so for Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and etc. Linkedin is a much different application that's more used in the business setting.

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This is the app I use the most frequently these days. This social app provide a platform for people to have interactions online and people could see what their friends are doing right now at this moment if their friends open the limitations of showing their conditions. I believe the most popular function of this app is to play game with friends together that friends could see what game is one person playing so that you may join he or she. It's very intersting

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An app that I mainly use is Twitter. I enjoy using twitter as a main application because of the variety of information I can see and access regarding different topics I am interested in. These topics or communities include sports, relevant news, and also staying in-touch with family and friends. I also like how I am able to join and interact with communities and people that are interested in similar topics. Another application I enjoy is instagram, but I find at times it is too picture heavy. Twitter for me is a perfect in between for pictures and text. For public interaction, each user may decide and choose how they want their profile to be viewed by others. You can choose to be private so only allowed friends can see what you post, or choose a public profile which anyone on twitter can view.

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One of the apps I use most frequently for social interaction is instagram. I like that I can both stay in touch with friends and see what is going on in their lives. I favor instagram over other social media sites because I am a big fan of pictures. As a hobby photographer it is nice to have a place to share photos with others. I like that instagram has a mixture of photo and video, instead of just video like on sites like TikTok or mostly text like Twitter. I like that you can find different niche groups forming their own small community’s.

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The app I use the most is definitely Spotify. Music has helped me through so much in my life in ways I didn't even think were possible. I have music on no matter what I am doing. Almost every night I take a long drive and listen to music. I love almost every genre of music but my favorite is definitely indie/rock. Getting so into music at a young age has also introduced me to cool things like music festivals. I attended multiple music festivals every year and they are my absolute favorite place to be.

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An application that I used frequently would be discord as it's one of the very few ways I'm able to keep constant contact with my friends who are out of state and even out of the country. Discord allowed many of its users to contact and communicate with people from all over the world and allowed the creation of specific servers that would cater to the user's hobbies/interests. Though discord has made some of its users from going out to public areas to meet with some of their friends, however, since covid had occurred, the option was limited either way.

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This is a screenshot of Snapchat. I’ve been using Snapchat for years and this is the main app I use on a daily basis. I use it to store and take pictures and to interact with my friends. It offers an extended community with people I can’t physically by allowing me to keep in touch with them and interact. Obviously this looses the physical aspect of socialization but this was a big part of socializing especially during covid.

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I have just started Snapchat. I must confess, this is probably my first social application that I have started using properly. I am just fascinated how much influence that these social apps have. Not only it shows you a glimpse of people's life but it also shows what is trending in this time. Something I would have never felt If I would have been able to use this. Ever since I have downloaded this app, there is thing called streaks. This has just made up my friendship go even stronger. Way stronger than I would have ever anticipated. How we are able to share a moment of our lives with each other.

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The app I probably use most frequently is Spotify. It is convenient, and – frankly – easier to get through my day, if I have music or a podcast to listen to; particularly as I spend the majority of my time commuting by car or by walking. The Spotify community, compared to other social media sites, is unique in that it is entirely audio-based, and communication outside that medium isn’t possible. Instead, users are more likely to find music or podcasts on Spotify, and communicate about them on other platforms. My friends and I will compile music in playlists and share them with each other through Discord, for example. On a larger scale, a celebrity or other famous individual might post a song, or a highly anticipated podcast may drop, and it will create a microcosm of activity where friends and strangers alike discuss, argue or simply share about it on a multitude of social media sites. Music is a deep-set aspect of humanity, and I find myself unable to think of a more influential app than Spotify – even if it often takes a backseat to other social media sites such as Twitter.

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I frequently use Snapchat to stay in touch with my friends from high school while we are all at college. I can constantly see what they are up to publicly or I can communicate with them privately. Since I am also able to have private conversations it would close off those I do not know while publicly posting to their story allows all their friends to see what they're up to.

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"my fitness pal" is an app used by a lot of avid gym goers and is mainly used to maintain calorie count along with macro and micro nutrients. This app is not a social media app however due to its popularity it allows me and any other avid gym goers to connect in person on what foods we have eaten, and how much exercise we do. Due to this app being a fitness app, it does limit the community to people who track their food but the fitness community is very inclusive and helpful as a whole.

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The app that I use the most is probably YouTube. YouTube itself is a very free-form platform and does not really force people into one kind of social interaction, being more so a medium through which people can share their creations than a kind of creation. It facilitates the kind of community centered around specific creators and often fails to encourage effective communication between creators and their audiences.

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An app that i use frequently is tiktok. On this app people post short clips about virtually anything. The feed is set up based on your likes and interests and is never ending so it is without a doubt addicting. On this platform i can post videos or trends to either just my followers or everyone, i can also share videos with my friends in the direct message. The communities it offers is basically anyone, there are pages based off fashion, animals, and just basic relatable life aspects. It is extremely addicting due to it being never ending with so many different videos thrown at you based off of all your heavy or little interests.

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An application that I frequently use is discord. Discord primarily serves as a messaging and voice service where you can chat with numerous people at a time from all other the world. However, discord also offers streaming services where you can show other people what you're currently doing on your device. The app itself offers a variety of communities due to the large user base. While a few of the users of the app do create rather disgusting communities, most of the users of the app create friendly and engaging communities where you can meet new people and explore your interests. I feel like this app does close a lot of physical interaction among people as due to the fact that you can chat with people on your device whenever you want, people are a lot less incentivized to go out and meet people physically.

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Instagram is an application that I frequently use on my smartphone. The social interaction this application offers is sharing videos and pictures while also being able to comment and share these pictures and videos. You are able to share these and view these pictures with your followers or who you follow. This application like many others allow all types of groups and communities to get together. Anywhere from gaming and sports to fashion and cooking. This application closes of the public interaction with people in everyday life. Nowadays people are tuned into their phones on applications like this one instead of interacting in person.

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One of the applications I frequently use is Instagram, one of the few social media apps used globally. Instagram constructs various social interactions among communities, including sharing information and social life aspects, comments, and saving posts, likes, and profile views. This application's most common social interaction is "likes," allowing friends and other followers to like your post. One can measure their post's success through these likes because more likes expand one's reach and enable many people to see their profiles and posts. Besides, Instagram allows people to comment on other people's posts, allowing people to interact and social their social connection with others. Saving valuable content allows individuals to view their past, while sharing creates a broad relationship between individuals.

Instagram creates a collaborative and supportive community through a network of engaged followers who provide significant support through likes and comments. Followers can show considerable support to other people by sharing their content on this social media platform. For example, if someone posts the products and services they offer, users can support it by sharing the post and providing positive comments. It enhances collaborative community whereby members show significant concern about others' wellbeing and success in life. I have used Instagram for a considerable time. It is one of the social media applications that one can thrive on and extend their reach, especially for business activities.

This application restricts various public interactions due to its concern for creating a collaborative and supportive community. Instagram prohibits hate speech among users by restricting posts and comments that might promote violence. Besides, it does not allow bullying to ensure that every user feels free and part of the community. In essence, this application does not allow any post or comment that might trigger violence or cause harm to other people.

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The social software that I use a lot is WeChat. He has a lot of features that allow people to post their lives and their photos on this platform. It is relatively private because only those who have added friends can see what is posted. And we can also choose how many photos we want our friends to see. The main function of this application is to allow us to chat with friends and family. It also has many other features, such as payment. It can also provide language translation and voice to text function. This makes it easier for us to communicate.

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The social software I often use is instagrams. I like to share my life and photos. The story function of this app also makes my relationship with my friends go further. They like to share their life on it and I can also see it. The main thing is that this app can make me get along well with a lot of people I didn't know very well. Another point is that this app allows us to follow the lives of our idols. For example, if I like Jackson wang, I will follow his account, so that we are no longer far away from our idols.

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Instagram is probably my favorite social media platform (with Tik Tok being a close second). I use instagram everyday as a means of connecting with other friends and family, and to share what ever is going on with me. Instagram also allows me to pick and choose the different communities I want to be apart of. There are many fan accounts, or accounts that post things specific things, such as about a music groups, tv shows, memes, satisfying videos, etc. And instagrams explore page does a good job at learning what you like and recommending you new things. I cannot think of any ways this app does not allow me to connect with others because of how many different things you could do on here.

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I use Instagram a lot, and there are so many ways to interact with other people on the platform, whether it be liking, following, @ing or commenting on a post. It offers community to many people with basically any kind of interest. People make group chats, follow fan pages, or create content dedicated towards a particular interest that people follow. As the nature od most apps, it does however not instigate physical interaction, and many people find themselves to be isolated by the platform.

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Tik Tok is an app where you can make short videos of anything and it's one of the apps I spend most of my time on. Tik Tok really started to blowup during the beginning of covid where everyone was at home. It's a platform where you can express yourself in a few second clip. It's used as comedy, entertainment, and also an up-to-date news on whats happening around the world. Tik Tok is open to everyone and every community, whether you like dance, music, art, cooking, makeup and etc. there is a spot for everyone. However the only downside to this app is that it can be addicting! Next thing you know you somehow spend three hours scrolling through the app.

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Pokemon Go is an app I started using gain frequently, though it does not have message chats between players, you can play games and interact with the friends you add, creating a community of people who like playing the game. I like that there are no true interactions with the public with your whole life on view- opposite to instagram or facebook.

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Instagram is one of the social media that I use for a long time.I remember the time I would post every part of my life on it. It would help me talk to many of my friends. It offers me all kind of community, from my friends to my hobbies or my class. Like many other social media, verbal abuse is often not allowed on instagram

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This app, Reddit, works as a social media outlook with discussion forums on politics, news, entertainment, etc. People are free to post and comment on any topics that concern them and others, offering questions/answers to worldly and everyday customs/trends. This app welcomes people of all ages from all around the world to stay in touch and connected with each other. You will find various communities within this app with the capability to subscribe to certain subreddits that interest you. Like many other media applications, the only type of public interaction that it does not accept is verbal mistreatment/abuse towards one another.

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Instagram is one of my favorite social media platforms (of course besides Pinterest and Tik Tok) and has been for the past 7 years. When I was in middle school, Instagram was huge. Everyone posted whatever they wanted whether it was the food they ate, the people they were with, great moments, etc.

Although I feel like Instagram has changed and has become more of a business venture, I feel like I still use it the most. I’ve found family members that I haven’t connected with within a very long time and friends that I lost touch with. Instagram is one large community for everyone. Ultimately, people in the Instagram community can find a community within the app.

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This is a game I play frequently. It is called Hayday. In this game, you could interact with different players around the globe with helping them on different types of tasks in either their farm, orders, or town, participate in weekly competitions between "neighborhoods", and selling goods to other players that are either productions from your production machines or farm. There are many ways players could interact with each other and you could even befriend other players in game as well. The players also have creative freedom to design their farm and town in which every way they want. However, it does not offer private chat and the only way you could interact verbally with others is through the neighborhood chat. The only other way to interact with  players is through helping them in game and selling products or other goods from your farm. It offers a somewhat collaborative community.

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I really enjoy using Discord, both on desktop and mobile. There are many features for customization, and with this it gives you the power to create your own community called a "server". Servers are usually formed around specific subjects or groups - such as a specific game, class, friend group, fandom, etc. - and allow for many interactions with other people through voice channels and text channels. In the server that I have with my friends in real life, we commonly use the server to plan outings and hang-outs, so in that regard it helps us have more public interaction. Also, you can join public servers, so the possibilities are endless as far as meeting people from long distances. But by giving that option I suppose it can make it easier to make friends online than in person, so for some people it may shut down the need to go outside into the real world. Luckily I, along with most people, use it as a supplement to stay connected with my friends in real life, and it is a great social tool.

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One of the applications I frequently use is twitter. This app allows for people who have certain interests to talk freely about them in a community filled with similar people. For example, one of my favorite artists is Harry Styles and twitter is the primary place I go to get news on his upcoming projects and get to see what other people have to say about it. Twitter does close off public physical interaction but it creates more social interaction than it closes off. You can talk to people around the world with the same interests as you, as well as news about everything around the world. It lets you connect with communities you wouldn't be able to without a platform.

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This social media app promotes the creation of short videos under 3 minutes that usually have some sort of dancing or humor to them upon using a very popular song. The community here differs depending on what type of content one likes to watch. For example, because I'm a premed I have lots of premed videos that I like to watch or day in the life of a doctor. The app does close off any inappropriate videos that concern nudity or even the mention of something that is controversial like some curse words.

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The app I use frequently in both web and mobile is Twitter. The huge network built inside Twitter is still irreplaceable for many users and so do I. Using this app, I can find out various news and interesting topics within just a second. It allows me to see different perspectives in single topic or news. Of course I need to filter out some fake news or rumors, but still it is a great app to communicate and have conversation with people around world.

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WhatsApp is an application I use on a daily basis. The main purpose is to connect with family and friends (via texts, audio, and video calls), and to a lesser extent to communicate with businesses that use it as a service platform. Personally, this app does not offer the ability to expand my social circle or career network. It also does not provide news or up-to-the-minute information on world events. The community stays quite fixed unless I have a need for a service that relies on the app to communicate with its customers.

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An web application on my laptop that I frequently use is Github. The app is built for all developers of apps and ideas for coding around world. People show and share their brilliant and unique talents on this platform. It is a revolutionary platform for people who can upload their projects, like their versions of codes, tools and apps for different devices for various systems like Windows, IOS, Android, Linux and MacOS and so on. It is amazing that people could see another version of modern art on this web application.(It also can be downloaded on phones) I can always find new changes around the world on this app and that is one of reasons that I frequently use this app.

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The app twitter is something that I use on a daily basis due to its amazing networking features. The app, although may seem as a simple social media platform, is great at creating communities of people with specific intesrests. It allows people like myself to invest into a particular form of entertainment while also learning and aquiring new information from others. This sense of belonging is very important as you can always find someone in the world that is just as enthusiastic about something as I may be. From things like sports to very niche fandoms, this app makes it very easy to join a group of people discussing things they love. There are so many other uses for this app as well such as news collection, debate, and a lot of public discourse. Since anyone an post on the app, information is not always accurate but the fostering of public debate is what maks the app very improtant. This global connection is one of the many wonders of a media platform such as twitter and is why it remains as one of my most used apps.

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An application that I frequently use is Instagram. The app allows a person to post and share moments of their lives whether it be of important events, food, or literally random things. You can follow your friends and make new ones through Instagram. It also is a great place to express your creativity and have people see your work. You can also connect with others through group chats or dms that you can make in Instagram and you can share different posts and stories from other users. In terms of public interaction, this app is probably not the best. There is a clear divide in the pros and cons of this application. On one side, you can interact with many people from all around the world and share your creativity, but on the other hand, you are cut off from the real world. Many things on Instagram can surmount to filters and unrealistic expectations which isn't the best thing for the community in general.

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I use Amazon on probably a weekly basis due to the fact that it is extremely convenient. Almost everything I possibly need can be found on Amazon for affordable prices making life much easier.

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I use Instagram very frequently to post photos of my life and share them with the world. I find Instagram to allow people to connect with others in this way. I’m sharing my life with the world but also keeping up with the lives of those who have been, or are still in my life. Since I live in NYC and my family is located in my hometown of Long Island this app helps me stay connected in their lives. Even though this app helps with connectivity, it also has the power to disconnect people from themselves and their own lives. Social media, in all forms, is not the full extent of life. There are natural barriers and hardships we go through that are not shared on social media and that can be a dangerous thing for many people's mental health.

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Apple music is an app that has become a part of my everyday life. Doesn’t matter the time or the place, I always find myself spending lots of time on it. It allows me to listen to all different types of music genres and to discover new artists that I like and some artists that are just upcoming. I get to make different playlists for different occasions and even get to share them with my friends. I can also follow my friends and see what music they are currently listening to and listen to their playlists and add them to my own library if I like it that much. I really enjoy seeing what my friends are up to because sometimes we realize that we like lots of the same type of music. Although the app lacks a form of direct messaging I think it compensates through the fact of being able to see something as important as the musical preference of friends.

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I use snapchat the most out of any apps. I use this app to communicate with my friends. I would say that I probably use it a little too much, and I am working on that. Overall this is a great app for communication.

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An app that I use frequently is probably Pinterest. It is an app that allows you to make different vision boards and put “pins” of pictures and ideas in it from anywhere. The app allows you to follow other people and get pins/ideas from them and you can interact with them and their content. You can join groups with whom you share common interests, which helps bring about a sense of community because you can talk to and follow these people who have similar interests to you. It closes off physical interaction because the app allows you to post everything online and form an online community with like minded people. I have my account set to private so I don’t really have any public interaction but I follow other people who have the same interests as me and I can interact with them through messaging, commenting, and pinning their content.

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I would say I use Instagram the most. I feel that whenever there's a new social media, Instagram kind of copies the new feature that the social media is based on. It has everything from messaging, posting pictures, videos, sharing, stories and now reels which are basically tiktoks. I feel that all the popular content from different social medias end up on Instagram so you don't have to download the other apps.

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Snapchat is something I use a lot. It is great for communicating with friends. I can also view stories to check in on people I maybe haven't seen in a while. I also like the camera feature so the people you are talking to look like. There is even a discover feature so you can find more content that interests you.

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This app is called viber. It allows people to call and video call across the globe. It would be considered a messaging app and targets people of all ages and links people from all over the world. I love this app and I spend a lot of time on it since my family is back in Greece and I try to talk to them and video call them every day to see how they are doing.

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An app I use frequently is "Snapchat". This app allows you to communicate with people around the world through pictures, texts, videos, and many more options. Most people use it by just sending pictures back and fourth to one another. You can also add to your "story" and upload any picture/text that you want for everyone to see. You are able to message someone if they add you back on the app and you add them through your username. This app is more geared towards teens as not a lot of adults use it to communicate. The community is definitely more kid and teen related since most people our age use it. The public interaction that this closes off is being able to see what the person is doing by them just sending you a photo/video. You do not have to see them in person to see what they are up to.

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I use Apple Music most frequently, I'm constantly playing music with my headphones. The app lets you listen to your music and share music with others. You can find all kinds of playlists made by tons of different people or find new artists to listen to. The app allows me to listen to music anywhere which means that I often have my headphones in when walking around campus or when I'm traveling to school. Having those headphones in playing the music means that I'm not always the most present in my space.

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I use instagram a lot. I would argue that instagram is the most popular social media app out right now. I really like instagram because it is a way to share photos that are important to you with people you know. I also like to use it to keep up with all my friends, considering we are all in college doing our own thing now.

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I use this app a lot. I use it mostly for my friends and to keep in touch with kids I havent talked to in a while. I also use it to talk to y siblings everyday. With the new age of technology my siblings do not normally text or call, but they do snapchat. The public interaction with snapchat is also cool because there are collective stories for places that I can see from random people who are also in the area so it gives me a good sense of what I can do for fun there.

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I chose Whatsapp, because this application helps me stay in touch with my family members throughout the world for free. Its an app everyone is familiar with. It also saves contacts when switching phones which i find very useful because if i ever lose anyones number I can go to this application and find a number of a distant relative.

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The application that I chose is Instagram. I chose Instagram because recently I have found myself on it more than I have in the past. Instagram is used by a widespread community. It is used in many different countries all across the world and people of all ages use it. The public interaction with Instagram isn't really closed off because you can find anyone you would like.

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The application that I frequently use is called Spotify. As has been mentioned by many others, Spotify is my mainly used application and perhaps my favorite. The app is perfect for any type of social interaction. It includes all different types of music for every person and culture to enjoy. The app is perfect for a lot, it offers you the option to create playlists of your favorite songs that others may enjoy as well. The app also allows for a community playlist where everyone can add their favorite. Not only does it offer some of your favorite music, but it allows you to explore that of others as well.

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SoundCloud is an application I use daily. It features all of my favorite alternative music artists. I use SoundCloud because it gives me access to unreleased music that is not being distributed by record companies to mainstream platforms like Apple Music and Spotify. SoundCloud is unique in that it only features music not seen on other platforms and as a result of this features the most exclusive content available. SoundCloud's community is extensive and spans the entire world but it has achieved mass appeal through the punk rock and hip hop genres. SoundCloud's independent artist movement has influenced mainstream music, with several artists in the late 2010's developing on SoundCloud and from there directly releasing music on Spotify or Apple Music without the aid of traditional record labels. This would only be possible by using SoundCloud.

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An app that I use frequently is called Discord. This app allows you to add people online and talk with them through a voice or video call whether you know them or not. It can be done by their friend system or through servers. These servers create communities that allow for people with common interests to share their ideas and communicate with each other. It does this all from our homes, closing off the interaction of having to be face to face to do this before.

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I find that I frequently use the Instagram app in order to check in with my friends. It fosters a feeling of close-knit community as I can see photos and snapshots of my friends' lives. Additionally it allows me to make new friends with shared interests through artists pages and through mutual friends and acquaintances. One interaction it does close off though is that of immediate responses, as most social media apps do. Since it is easier and preferable to most people to communicate via public and private messages, the usual synchronous way of communicating (either in person or over the phone) tends to not be used as much. I do wonder what this could mean for us in the future as this trend in communication becomes more common.

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The application that I use the most is YouTube. I have grown up with the app and it has been a major part of my childhood and now young adult life. I mainly use YouTube for schoolwork, such as watching videos on a topic I'm confused about or don’t understand the textbook definition of. I also use youtube for listening to music and watching food content. The main type of social interaction you can have on YouTube is through the comment section, where one can share their thoughts, agreements, and disagreements on a video. YouTube is also unique in that under one platform it has multiple communities. There is the gaming community, the beauty community, the art community, and my favorite is the cooking community. Overall YouTube is a versatile application that offers entertainment, knowledge, and a sense of community, thus it is the application I use the most.

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An app that i frequently use is Tiktok. I use it as a source of entertainment, to get advice/tips, and as a way to interact with others. I really enjoy the fact that it's not only fun but also can be a source of very useful and helpful information for me. It gives a sense of community too. I think a public interaction it closes off is going out and enjoying the world around us rather than sitting on your phone as a way to have fun. I could easily spend hours mindlessly scrolling throughout the app and not even realize it! It's very easy to end up spending way too much time and energy on this type of app and neglecting the importance of real social interaction and it deters the focus of other important things going on in life. It's just a huge distraction and should be limited in my opinion.

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The app is Reddit. The social interaction that Reddit constructs is an online community where various topics are discussed in an online setting. Through the online platform, anyone in the public can express their opinions, thoughts, and questions on the topic that is being discussed. It provides a community among others because most of the time people post to Reddit to get advice on social situations or their career paths/opportunities that may be available to them, which the person may try to connect through further and potentially network. This closes the public interaction of meeting face to face in person.

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Apple Music allows you to listen and tune into your favorite music, artists, radio, podcasts, and more. It allows you to create playlists that can be shared with friends and family, and to find other playlists that are of your own interest. Furthermore, Apple Music allows offline listening, which comes in handy when there is no stable internet connection available. I frequently utilize these services, as it is convenient and I enjoy listening to music. Personally, music is a sort of "getaway", in that it allows me to unwind during leisure time, it contributes to positive moods (with upbeat music), it is calming- just overall therapeutic. Although this application limits (because there is little to none other than sharing playlists) the social interaction had between its users, this aspect contributes to its main purpose of solely listening to music without many other distracting features. Its ability to only connect you with your preferred or favorite artists and genre's, places an emphasis on your own interests. Listening to music has always brought me peace, and Apple Music greatly facilitates this action.

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An app that I frequently use is instagram. This app is based on photo sharing and I have been using it since it released in 2010. Over the past 12 years it has evolved and now has many more features like story sharing, shopping, and catered explore pages. If you had asked me 5 years ago what my most used app was, it would have been twitter. But lately i've been trying to post more relatable things on my social media, trying to be authentic and not only share the filtered perfect images everyone else presents. I set up my close friends list for my story to share personal topics and feelings. It is only a small group of people, but I hope to eventually become more public about my situations.

The downside to instagram is that people choose what they post and a lot of that is photoshopped perfect bodies or unobtainable wealth. It has created a lot of envy amongst our youth and it is a little sad.

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Think about how many of our social interactions are through Google Calendar. I set up my meetings with professional staff through here—heck I even set up dates with my friends through Google Calendar. My days are so jam packed that everything needs a section in my day. Considering you can share calendars with people it does offer a lot of community because it allows you to see when others are available. But it blocks public interaction that doesn't happen naturally. Sometimes we are so obsessed with planning that we forget what interactions look like beyond the ones we set up.

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An application that I frequently use is YouTube. The platform offers services to share a wide scope of videos, which could range in tutorials, compilations, podcasts, highlights and infinite other possibilities. It offers a comment section on each individual post where ideas and statements could be shared. If you are in search of how to advice, entertainment, or knowledge, YouTube could be a good place to go. Though you must be careful, things such as "clickbait" which could be false or misleading videos made in order to rack up viewership.

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An app that I frequently use is youtube. Youtube allows people to create their own profile and upload videos, watch, like and comment on other videos. I use this app to watch learning and entertainment videos, listen to music and share videos with my family and friends . This app allows social interaction through the comment section where people can post their opinions and view points about the video they are watching. Communities of people who share similar interests are formed as we can upload, share and comment on videos. To its downside, unnecessary and useless content is also available and nowadays there are many bots that spam the comment section which we need to be careful of. We can choose what we want to watch and also use tools like safety mode to limit content.

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An application i frequently use is reddit. Reddit is a social news website and forum. It contains subreddits which are basically micro-communities within Reddit and are based on a specific topics. There a variety of subreddits pertaining to all types of people. It's a great way to connect and discuss for people with similar interests. Reddit closes off both public and private interactions.

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An application that I frequently use is Instagram. Instagram is one of my social media interactions with my family, friends, and world. On Instagram, people can post their favorite pictures or video that they want to share with others on their accounts. Then others can interact with them by liking, commenting, or sharing their post. So they can share their daily life, feeling, or thoughts, and communicate with each other. Also, they can choose their account private or public. If they make their account public, anyone who has an Instagram account can see their posts. So we are globally connected even if they are living in different countries. They can also follow others who have similar interests. For example, if you are interested in artwork, you can follow artists or painters to see their artwork. Also, there are “stories” that are only available for 24 hours to be viewed when posting. So you can post just anything you want even if it is a really simple thing.

In terms of the community aspect, it has both positive and negative impacts on people. Instagram can have a positive impact just like I said above, but there are also negative sides. One of the main negative effects is comparing each other. Sometimes, people tend to show their wealth or pride on social media, so people who saw their posts can feel relative deprivation. Instagram also can close off public interaction. If users make their accounts private, then it limits the people who can see their posts.

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This is an app known as Netflix thats been my go to app these last couple of weeks. Its an app that has many different types of mvoies, genres of shows from horror to comedy that i find a way to pass time. Whenever im in bwteen classes i use this app, whenever im going to sleep i use this app, etc. In terms of social interactions this is not a app in which you can post of view feeds however it does reflect on the social aspect in which you can find others who may watch or like the same movies or shows as you. They offer communities and seperate accounts for kids including adults. This Netflix app closes off as a streaming app for binge and social relatability.

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TikTok is a popular app for me. In my spare time, I utilize this app to loosen up. In the form of the "For You" tab, this app provides different peoples that appeal to another's individual interests. The For You page is an automated process and displays material based on prior app usage and interactions. Anybody's For You page can be different; it all relies on the person's likes. As a result, TikTok provides an almost infinite number of communities to join, given that anyone's movies may be shared with people in the same specialty. This tab organizes videos that one has previously liked using the app's algorithm. This enables the formation of communities by bringing together people who share the same interests. In regards to the app's public engagement, users can opt to remain private either by not voicing on videos or not revealing their actual identity while responding. However I think this is a fun app for everyone to relax and have fun.

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Discord is a voice chat program I use a lot. A free network real-time calling software and digital distribution platform designed for the community, mainly for gamers, friends and business people, users can communicate with each other through messages, pictures, videos and audios in the software's chat channel. This The software can run on large websites and web pages such as Microsoft Windows and macOS. This program was originally born to make it easier for gamers to communicate by voice, and then gradually diversified. And now Discord has a lot of groups, whether it is learning, games, chat, these can be found in Discord.

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Ann app that I frequent is TikTok. I use this app daily to relax in my downtime. This app offers various communities that cater to ones specific interests in the form of the "For You" page. Through the apps algorithm, this page sorts videos one has a history of liking. This allows communities to be built by connecting people with shared interests. In terms of public interaction the app closes off, users can choose to stay anonymous by either not commenting on videos or not using their real name when commenting.

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Spotify is my favorite app on my phone, and I use it nearly every day. Spotify is a platform for streaming music and podcasts. Meaning that it plays songs off the internet as they load through the Spotify service. Spotify allows you to follow your favorite artists and share your listening habits with other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Despite the fact that music streaming services have eliminated CDs. It made listening to and sharing music much more convenient.

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An app that I use frequently is snapchat. This app allows for you to text other people, watch stories that they post of them or their daily lives and just have the ability to be updated on what their doing, and also send and receive disappearing pictures, and if you do it for enough days in a row it allows you to start a streak, and it helps to keep you connected to other people. You also have the ability to create private stories that allow you to only add the people you want to it. There are many communities that could be built from this app, and there is even a feature that allows community posts. A flaw with the app though is that it can give someone the impression that they know everything going on in another person's life just by viewing some videos they posted, when that isn't always true.

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An application that I frequently use is Youtube. I use it both as a source of information, entertainment, music and a way to interract with the world. It has an interesting community, and allows me to find people with the same interests to discuss things that we enjoy, although there are a lot of trolls and toxic people that contribute nothing. That's an issue on any platform however. It allows community to be built since we can share videos, so we could show friends and family what we are watching, and also share if it interests the too. It promotes social interraction, since it allows users to share things and watch videos with loved ones, and maybe encourages them to go out and see them for itself, although it discourages people going outside if they decide to overindulge. It allowed me to learn and explore my interests, and meet many amazing people. It gave me things to share and watch with my siblings, and we always share funny videos with each other.

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An application that I frequently use, especially recently, is called Telegram. With recent unfortunate events happening in Ukraine, this app has allowed to connect to people within Ukraine. I use it to keep in touch with friends and family, as well as people that are strangers to me. There is an infinite amount of chats on the app relating to the current events. I have to admit though, staying connected through this app is very draining and depressing, since I am able to see what is happening first hand through the words and photos of the people experiencing the hardships.

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An application I frequently use is Spotify. This app allows me to listen to music. One form of social interaction that this app constructs is creating and sharing playlists with other people. You are able to create playlists of music to post publicly on your account for other people to see and save. Sharing music with others is one of the most beneficial ways to discover one's personality and interests. There are many different communities through Spotify based on different genres of music. Communities can be fans of a specific artist who all come together to listen to the same songs on Spotify and possibly even go to concerts together from discovering artists on this app. Public interaction that is closed off from this application is the ability to comment online on people's playlists and songs. I think it would be a fun feature for comment sections to exist for each artist/song or playlist. Spotify is my most used application as listening to music and discovering new artists has been a huge factor of my life.

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An application I frequently use to this day is YouTube. YouTube has been my source of information from interacting with others with similar interests to learning from the videos. It allows people to connect with others through comments but also allows people offline to connect by watching videos together. There is also a share section to allow people to instantly share a video to someone and many communities are formed from their similar interests. Nowadays though, there are many more toxic comments and unnecessary bots that spam the comment section which can drown out the genuine comments from actual people. However, YouTube has been a way for me to further connect with my family and friends which makes me very grateful for this app.

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An app I frequently use is WeChat. The purpose of this app is to communicate with friends from all over the world. This app is commonly compared with other texting apps, but WeChat has constantly become more convenient. First of all, there are gifs made for you that people enjoy using to express their emotions during texting, such as anger, sadness, and happiness. It can all be expressed through gifs. Second, they have a straightforward translation to translate what you don’t know into your language within seconds. Third, this app can also be used as a video and voice call since they have this ability; more people enjoy using this because one app solves all their problems. The last reason is that you can also use this app to post photos/videos of what you want to share with people. This app allows people to share their everyday lifestyle, where they can also scroll, like, and comment on posts. WeChat is very popular amongst young and older adults in China because it is an effortless way to communicate in today’s technology world.

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An application on both my phone and laptop that I use frequently is the messages app. This app allows me to contact my family members, friends, manager and pretty much anyone else I know without having to verbally speak with them. This app allows me to type a short and simple message to others and also gives the person who is receiving the message to write back whenever they are free instead of having to respond right away as you would if you are calling them. This app certainly allows for social interaction with others however this interaction is limited in a sense that you cannot physically see the person you are talking to or hear what they are actually saying thus limiting face to face interactions. In addition, this app does not really allow for public interactions as most of the time this app is used to contact people who you know well.

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Discord is an application that I frequently. It is the main way that I communicate with my friends and even some family members. It allows for the creation of servers and groupchats, helping me form tight-knit communities with my friends and family. As time goes on however, it seems like I can only connect with past friends through discord. We are all in college now, so we are all very busy with our own things. I do not believe the lessening face-to-face interaction is a result of Discord, but rather the increasing responsibilities that come with entering college. I also do not think that Discord closes off public interaction, as there are many public servers in which you can interact with people from all over the world, creating communities grounded on similar interests. Overall, I would say that Discord helps facilitate social interaction, as it is a medium in which you can communicate with friends and family, but does not encroach on the value of physical interaction with the people you love.

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Spotify is an application that I use frequently. The application plays primarily music, but in regards to social interaction you are also able to share songs with other people. There are many different communities that can be found typically catering to a specific genre of music, so there is not exactly a single community offered. One public interaction that it closes off is definitely conversation. When I'm on the train I see a lot of people have their earbuds in and are most likely listening to something so it's hard to ignite conversations with strangers to pass the time. That's the public interaction it closes off to me personally I think idle chatter about where someone is headed and where they are from is a simple pleasantry that has become more scarce.

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An app that I find myself using very frequently is Twitter. I use daily throughout the day. I look at videos, pictures and tweets themselves that I find funny and send them to my friend or just enjoy them on my own as well.I also follow trends and discussions of Twitter just to see what is trending on the app world wide. Sport is also something I find myself following on twitter, I see discussion and as well as follow news relating to the sport I have interest in.

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An app that I use frequently is Tiktok. Tiktok allows people to upload videos for others to see and allows people to comment on those videos. The top of the app allows users to choose between scrolling through their for you page or through the accounts they follow. The for you page is based on algorithm, so the videos will be different for everyone. The for you page is based on a person's interests and off of what the user would most often search up. Tiktok offers a lot of different communities but overall, the communities are friendly and welcoming. The kind of public interaction that tiktok closes off are inappropriate languages in the comments, and hurtful comments against other users of the app.

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An app I frequently use is Snapchat. Snapchat allows people to communicate with each other whether it is through messages, pictures, or images. Also, users can post public stories or private stories which are pictures or videos that they chose to post for others to see. Public stories allow everyone to see and private stories only allows certain people to see. Snapchat also has memories that allow users to save pictures or videos. Snapchat provides a pleasurable community where friends and families can communicate with each other through texts, pictures, or videos. I use Snapchat to communicate with my friends that are in different states and it allows us to stay in contact with each other. I have used Snapchat for years now and I continue to enjoy using it. Especially when I can communicate with my friends and look through my memories of past pictures.

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The Apple Music app is an app I use everyday. While it may seem as if this app is intended for private use, there are many ways you can engage social use. For example, the app has the ability to add friends so you can share music with one another more efficiently. However, if you do not have Apple Music the app can still be used to share playlists and songs with other people for references to some of your favorites.