I'm Andrew and right now, besides my name, there isn't much about myself I'm pressed for any reader to know immediately. You will learn much about me shortly. But, since you asked, a quick background as to why I'm here. I am taking this course to further my knowledge and gain insight into new media practices. As well as further my experience and knowledge to assist in the social media endeavors that are becoming more and more a part of what I do in my own line of work, and have even lead to new business partnerships rooted purely in social media.
I engage daily in a fair amount of social and new media. A typical day is checking Facebook maybe 10 times a day throughout, Twitter less often with maybe 4 or 5, I use the user generated new website Reddit as often if not more often than Facebook. All of these outlets I use primarily for business related interactions For pure pleasure, Reddit is probably my primary source for news and other information, sometimes information I'm actively seeking out and sometimes I will browse Reddit similarly to how one might watch the evening news. Just to see whats going on in the world. What attracts me to Reddit the most is the "user generated" backbone on which it operates. Because of this, there is much less influence of media conglomerates on what is distributed on Reddit. A key feature here is the voting system, wherein any registered user (registration is free) can vote on any topic's popularity which increases its visibility. As a sociology major this style of new media interests me immensely and I expect to write more later about social mechanics in social and new media.
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