Sumaira McCloud

God, I can't say it enough. I am so over social media and all the false sense of 'keeping in touch' it allows people to feel. I have so many people I know who expect you to keep up with their life or know certain small details of their day, because they have promoted the idea on Facebook. Really? Even if I had Facebook, had I seen these posts, what is left to talk about in PERSON? I used to be this way four months ago, so I know it's easy to be blinded and not realize what's happening to your life and the constant increase of addiction. BUT with that said now that I am aware of the habit and have broken it, I feel everyone else should be awakened, too. Just venting, and hating Facebook, sigh. -ssr

August changed my life. I began my bachelor's program and it deals with 100% social media and internet. The name of my degree is called Converged Communications . Upon telling people this degree everyone has only one universal response, "What the heck is that?!" The response is valid, because my school actually is the first to have this degree offered. Whereas other colleges around our school offer Communication degrees, after choosing this degree one must branch under Broadcasting, Media, Marketing, Public Relations, etc, to become an expert at one specific field. Converged Communications is a new program that is designed to offer a student ALL of the above into ONE degree. It's pretty awesome. There are four large focuses, however the main courses are required for all four. The four focuses include Advertising & Promoting, Production Media, Strategic Corporate Communications, and Political and Cause campaigns. So far I've been enrolled and active