Conversation#3 Wenfeng Huang

In the article “Snapchat Wants You to Post. It’s Willing to Pay Millions.” Taylor Lorenz writes that snapchat, a social media platform, is making people rich. Lorenz discusses several young creators, like Katie Feeney who is 18 years old and can now afford to go to college by using snapchat to open financed opportunities. The social media platform of snapchat is making people rich and changing their life. Next, Lorenz mentions that Snapchat is competing with Tiktok which is another media platform by offering users a chance to earn substantial amounts of money. Finally, she says that Snapchat is not only attracting influencers but also regular users by paying based on video posting. While the opportunity is  changing some people’s life, Lorenz believes that competitions also are increasing. 

I started to use social media when I was in high school. I only use WeChat which is one of the main social media in China. WeChat has a lot of functions. Like I use WeChat to text, file, moment(posting), video call, and voice call with my friends and family. WeChat also can share the real-time location to anyone you want to send and transfer money to others. When I buy something or go to a restaurant in China, I can pay for it by WeChat because my bank card connects with my WeChat account. It is very common and convenient in China. We can’t access to foreign social media, like Facebook and Instagram in China. When I came here I started to use facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, but I don’t familiar with them. I have a facebook account, I rarely check and use it.  I use WhatsApp to contact my classmates here. I also use Instagram to follow school’s activities. In general, I don’t spend a lot of time on social media because I have a lot of things I want to do and need to do. Social media is a tool for me to get information or contact with others. Last semester, I took a public speaking class and one of my classmates mentioned that he was posting videos on YouTube and he can earn several hundred per month. It was my first time hearing someone earns money from social media. He said it takes time to make a video and edit it. But later on he said it didn’t take him too long to make and edit a video. I am actually surprised that people can make a million on the social media of Snapchat by posting videos. I think they are very cool. For me, I won’t do that because I am not good at making videos and I don’t like being posted on social media. In the end, I really agree with the author writes that anything can happen at any moment. The world is changing everyday and new things and ideas are created everyday. I just want to focus on what I want to do instead of jumping on the bandwagon. 

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