Social media has affected my life both personally and professionally. Social media has kept me in contact with many childhood friends, co workers, and family members I otherwise would have lost communication with. Thanks to social media I can see how peoples families are doing, what they’ve been up to, and how their lives have changed. Social media has kept me in the loop. I have been able to meet up with and hang out with old friends as well thanks to social media.

Professionally social media hasn’t really affected my life much. I have used social media to connect with people I have met at work, but for the most part it has been socially. I would eventually like to use social media as a platform to launch a business or gain business contacts. I have a linkedin account, but have not used it much. I know linkedin is a huge social media resource professionally, not only for making contacts, but also for finding jobs. I have noticed potential employers checking out my linkedin profile so that alone shows the importance of social media as a professional resource.

I have made connections with people who live across the country and I would normally have never met, and made great friends this way. I have even been able to travel and meet people I never would have otherwise known. There are many fitness models, and music professionals I am in regular contact with due to social media. If not for social media my music would not be on the fitness youtube pages of some of the best fitness models. This hasn’t given me much professionally other than the satisfaction of knowing my music is out there, but it would not have happened without social media.

Facebook and Instagram have also gotten me many new friends I otherwise would not have met. There are people who I attend college with that I met up with and became study buddies with thanks to social media. Social media has also changed the way I get world and local news. I’ve noticed that I find out and learn more about local and world news via social media faster than any other sort of communication. I am very much into sports and science as well, and social media has put me at my game in knowing the latest sports and m I create and write music, as well as sing. Twitter, Instagram, facebook, and soundcloud have all done a great deal to get my music out to the public, and I have a song that has over 1000 plays currently. I have even been tweeted by a grammy winning artist who praised my rendition of Tears On My Pillow. If it wasn’t for social media, none of the many people who have heard my music ever would have.

Therefore social media has had a much larger impact on me personally than professionally. Personally it has connected me with many old friends, and helped me make many new friends. Professionally it has got my music to an audience I’d otherwise not have and helped me connect with people of influence.

Andrew who? Happy retirement Mr. Luck, you earned it. Jacoby’s era has just begun in Indianapolis.

The Colts triumph over the Falcons this past weekend is greatly highlighted in a web video for all to see. This web video shows all of the highlights of Jacoby Brissett’s breakout game. When Andrew Luck went down everyone thought the Colts season was over, but that is far from the case. The Colts are now sitting pretty at 2-1 under the strong accurate arm of Jacoby Brissett. In fact if it was not for Vinatieri’s mishaps in week 1 at Los Angeles the Indianapolis would be a cool perfect 3-0.

This Week 3 victory for the Colts over the Falcons was pure supremacy in the first half. The Colts lead 20-3 and it appeared this would be a home game blowout for Indianapolis to run away with. Jacoby Brissett was near perfect in the first half. The Falcons rallied back to make it a game in the third quarter, but under the brave and ballsy play calling of Frank Reich, ,the Colts kept the ball and the lead finishing the game in the fourth quarter. Finishing in the fourth quarter is something Indianapolis has struggled with in the past, but it seems that 2^nd year coach Frank Reich has solved that problem.

Jacoby Brissett looked like a franchise quarterback throwing for 310 Yards, 28/37 Completions/Attempts, 2 touchdowns, 0 interceptions and a fantastic quarterback rating of 118.1.

One issue of worry about this past game is with T.Y. Hilton in the game the Colt’s passing game was unstoppable. Once T.Y. Hilton went out with a hamstring injury it really hurt the passing attack. The Colt’s receiving core has to improve greatly if they have any post season plans. If T.Y. misses any significant time, the running game will have to put the team on its back offensively.

Adam Vinatieri single handedly lost the Colts week 1 game against the LA Chargers, and almost cost them the game in week 2 with multiple chip shot field goals missed. This past game against the Atlanta Falcons Vinatieri redeemed himself by having a perfect day kicking. Vinatieri’s first field goal hit the upright and went in, and it appears that his confidence has been restored along with the good kick. As long as he is back to his near perfect ways I see good things in the Colts future, if not it may be time to hang up the cleats for this wily old vet.

The Colt’s linebacking core and secondary has looked weak these past 3 weeks. The front defensive line has taken care of business, putting constant pressure on Quarterbacks, but the secondary has been horrific. The Colts defense is allowing almost 80% of passes to be completed against opposing Quarterbacks and a 115.4 passer rating for the Quarterbacks they’ve played against. The secondary has to get its act together if the team has any postseason dreams.

Speaking of the postseason the Colts look like a surefire contender after defeating 2 tough teams, and narrowly losing due to special teams in their opener. When T.Y. Hilton, Darius Leonard, and Jabaal Sheard all return healthy, the Colts will once again be the Kings of the AFC South. Andrew who?

Web videos are very important in this age of digital media. In particular web videos showing game recaps in sports are among the most important. Many people either have to work or do not have the time to watch an entire sports game, so game highlights and recaps are a great way to see the game. The NFL in particular has a great system for this, not only displaying the games on their website, but also all game highlights on YouTube as well.

I personally love social media and digital PR. Social media has been a major part of my life since 2008, and has grown more and more important to me as time has gone on. Social media has kept me in contact with many childhood friends, co workers, and family members I otherwise would have lost communication with. Thanks to social media I can see how peoples families are doing, what they’ve been up to, and how their lives have changed. Social media has kept me in the loop. I have been able to meet up with and hang out with old friends as well thanks to social media.

Facebook and Instagram have also gotten me many new friends I otherwise would not have met. There are people who I attend college with that I met up with and became study buddies with thanks to social media. Social media has also changed the way I get world and local news. I’ve noticed that I find out and learn more about local and world news via social media faster than any other sort of communication. I am very much into sports and science as well, and social media has put me at my  game in knowing the latest sports and medical trends.

I create and write music, as well as sing. Twitter, Instagram, facebook, and soundcloud have all done a great deal to get my music out to the public, and I have a song that has over 1000 plays currently. I have even been tweeted by a grammy winning artist who praised my rendition of Tears On My Pillow. If it wasn’t for social media, none of the many people who have heard my music ever would have.

Digital PR has helped many businesses reach out to people they normally couldn’t reach. I’ve used it so far to spread my music. I will continue to use it to try and grow an audience for my music and video game reviews. I have always been deeply into gaming, video game culture, and video game related things since I was a child. Social media has taken over the video game world by storm. Youtube, twitter and Instagram are where most video game news comes out first. Twitch streaming has become a staple in the video game world, and without it you’ll be hard pressed to be a known entity as a gamer. Even big time game companies like Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc use social media to stream their press conferences and all of their latest releases. Whenever a new game system or new video game is going to come out social media is the first place gamers turn to for this information.

I’m a huge fan of sports, and social media and digital PR have also been taken over by storm. Even though I am mostly a gamer and musician, I still use social media a lot to spread sports news about local Indiana teams, as well as major sports developments nationally. During the Olympics sports that were not shown on TV I watched via facebook or youtube and it was just as good as seeing it on TV. In fact it may have been better because the live feed gave people a way to talk to and communicate with each other while watching the sport of their choice.  Watching sports is great, but watching it while being able to communicate with other people who are also watching it is greater.

During the last Manny Pacquio fight I watched the fight on TV while streaming a live chat for anyone who wanted to join. Thousands of people joined in on the chat from all over the world and we had a great time communicating during the fight. Having fans of the sport enjoy it with you is always better than watching alone. Sports are a social trend humans have watched and participated since the beginning of time, and what better platform to share this on than social media?

Speaking of Manny Pacquio he just launched his own crypto currency, which of course is being backed by social media and Digital PR. His new cryto currency is completely fan backed, and will allow fans to purchase and interact with Pacquio via what else but social media. This new wave is most likely going to be used by more and more celebrities and athletes to spread their own wealth and influence on social media. I think its brilliant and would love to somehow get involved in such a new trend. Staying ahead of the curve is important in this digital age, if you lag behind you’ll get left behind.

Digital PR and Social Media have an endless torrent of potential, from marketing, to connecting with people for entertainment. There are even ways to watch movies online via social media and interact with people or loved ones while watching it. Skype, cisco, and LinkedIn have also changed even how corporations communicate. I have worked at multibillion dollar hospital corporations, to small churches as an IT professional, and at both I’ve seen Skype, MS Teams, cisco applications and many more social media inspired ways to communicate, instead of the typical office setting. I believe this trend will continue, and eventually cubicles will be a thing of the past. People will simply work from home in their home office, and communicate and meet virtually only seeing each other when a major event or meeting happens.

This new digital age is great, but I think we have to remember to see people and interact with them in person as well. If we get too caught up in staying home, staying indoors, and not exploring the world around us, that can be a far worse reality than having the world at the fingertips of your phone.

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

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