Coyle Interview_Rakus Interview

In this podcast episode, Susanna Coyle interviews Vanessa Shimony, a journalism major. They discuss social media platforms, with TikTok being the most engaging. Vanessa mentions that TikTok incorporates features from other platforms, making it unique. However, she also warns about the potential risks of sharing information on social media. Vanessa suggests having separate accounts for personal and professional content. The podcast concludes with a thank-you message. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to my podcast. I'm your host, Susanna Coyle, here today with Vanessa Shimony, an incoming freshman journalism major at Syracuse University. Susanna, thank you for having me today. It's an honor to be here. So, Vanessa, I was reviewing your podcast episode on SoundCloud where you spoke about your presence on Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. And I thought it was interesting that, according to Forbes, there are an estimated 4.9 billion people using social media globally. And the average user spreads their digital footprint across six to seven platforms. TikTok is definitely the most engaging, in my opinion, out of all the platforms. You know, you have live. You can DM people. You can video call people. You have a live streaming option. You have an option where you can buy things. There's a lot of unique parts about it that I feel like, you know, Instagram has the DMing part, but Facebook has, like, a shopping center. And it kind of just, like, incorporates all the big parts of all the other social media platforms and puts it into one. And that's what I think is the most unique about it is because every single thing you could possibly want to do on a social media platform, you can't say that messaging aspect is probably the part that you can miss. I see that. And they have, like, the option to, like, DM within the app and, like, send a link outside of the app. So that's good. I mean, it definitely makes sharing information across apps easier, but then that also means it becomes easier to be tracked. So I think it's definitely important to be careful where we store and how we use our information. I mean, obviously, it's not like I'm going around, like, sharing passwords with people. I'm the only one who has any access to my account. The majority of the social media platforms I have are private, so I'm in control of who's following me, who's not following me, who's seeing what I'm posting. And I think as long as you just don't leave anything in your account that could hurt you or leave any information in there as, like, quote-unquote evil that the people who run the accounts can come back and take from you, then I think you're probably in an OK spot. Nowadays, your information is easily accessible even for employers, and I know people on Instagram have finstas or, like, fun Instagrams for more casual photos to distinguish them from professional content. But I think that, you know, having them separate, honestly, is probably best just so that, like, employers can see one side of you and then they can see the other side of you and they don't have to go into the same accounts trying to savor between, like, which is what, if that makes sense. So I would probably go about having two different accounts, one professional and then one, like, casual, so you can see, like, the work side of you and then, like, the other side of you, you know? Yeah, because I would agree. Like, I think the personality is, like, just as important as, like, the professionalism. So I think that brings us to the end of our interview. Thank you so much. Thank you, Susanna. Thank you for tuning in for this week's episode. This is Susanna Coyle's podcast.