Sunday, December 13, 2015

Who is Johnny Lindquist according to the internet?

I've been on the internet for most of my adult life, and it has followed me for quite a while now. So in order to find out how it views me today let me start from the beginning; when I first wandered on to social media and internet interactions. Social media had been around and was a presence around my middle school days; however, I did not log on due to my mother banning me from "those sites" until I rebelled against her my sophomore year of high-school and joined facebook since myspace had all but died by then. As I grew so did my likes on facebook the predominate platform of social media I used and still do today. I don't know why, maybe its the one horse town I grew up in, but I never ventured out to other venues of social media besides Youtube, which I started watching at around the same time I logged on to facebook.
My first ever post.
 
After a few years online (all my highschool years) it had found out all my interests, music I liked, career plans, my close friends, what I look like, places I've been, where I live, where I went to school, who I went to school with, and the list goes on and on. With all of this information its clear it all describes a person, but does that person really have a face? Can the internet truly know me? There are countless fake and counterfeit profiles made every day, so what more is needed for the internet to frame me to my fullest extent? The answer lies within my online purchase history. The internet knows that I occasionally rent text books online along with buying motorcycle parts from numerous websites. This is where the internet knows me at times better than I know myself and this is my most profitable information for it to use and sell. According to the internet I, Johnny Lindquist, am a 22 year old male college student who has a passion for cars/trucks/motorcycles, and metal music along with a girlfriend of one year. How do I know the internet thinks this is who I am? Its because of the sharp advertisements directed at me. From band tee shirts, riding gear, engagement rings, textbooks, and even an ad for a technology school that had me thinking second thoughts about my major and school. However the internet will never know me on a personal level, that is until it creates a AI conscientiousness and has a one to one conversation with me but that might not be for awhile.

For some added bonus brownie points here are some "recommended" videos for me from my Youtube feed.


I've thoroughly enjoyed taking this class, as it has truly been one of higher education that I have sought after while attending here at DSU.  
Thank you for your time and teachings.
And again thanks for reading.

Sincerely,
Johnny Lindquist

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Facebook Ad

For some reason beyond me and my computer the only way facebook would let me create an advertisement was through this window, but hopefully this will or in a hypothetical sense would have worked in real life.


Monday, December 7, 2015

FB Campaign

My Facebook campaign's objective was to create a community around motorcycles in St George and Southern Utah. To accomplish this goal I set out to by posting news, seasonal photos, informative links and shared content from main stream sources along with inviting my friends. When writing my posts I tried to get responses in the form of likes or comments (like a poll) from my subscribers. I also had a photo-sharing contest in the works, but due to my circumstances this semester it never came into fruition. There was a few other things I wanted to do to try and get the ball moving but didn't get around to doing like: putting up flyers near motorcycle parking on campus, creating bike meets, going for a community rides, ect. I didn't really cross promote, other than having a couple of my friends share the page,
since I don't have a tweeter account or any other forms of social media other than YouTube with my 4 subscribers.
This has been an insightful assignment, I learned how difficult it is to run a public relation sort of endeavor or any kind of social media outlet. One thing is for certain I can take away from my page is that the majority of people that will see ones post will be in the afternoon and evening, not in the morning and not late at night, since that is where I reached the most people.

My facebook insights only go as far back as when I achieved 30 likes which was October 26th.

Here is my reach outlook.



Page views.


Posts
Having a theme I've noticed has helped reach and engage more viewers. Some of the themes I chose to use were things like "Two Wheel Tuesday, TGIF and sometimes #wideopenwednesday "




Overview

Overall as a Self Evaluation I think the page could have been better since I don't think its blossom'd into its full potential. There was definitely more I could have done and wanted to do throughout the semester, but due to getting a a part time job and living in my own apartment for the first time, instead of a dorm, and all while going to school full time made it hard to come up with better content and getting people involved to like the page. I can see my some people are able to make a profession out of running social media accounts because to be good at it, it definitely requires a lot of work. The page even peaked at 31 likes at one point but however it since has fallen back to 30.     

On a side note I can't find some of the insights that other people have found in class (who likes my page?) along with finding the right create an ad page since it just creates a pop up for me to fill out and pay for instead of the needle one we discussed in class. Is it the computer I am using or something else? because I Still want to do the ad assignment if I can. 
Many thanks for reading
Johnny Lindquist.