Psychology of Social Media - Making Contacts for the Future

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Regardless of the career that you pursue or are currently pursuing, it is likely that the action of securing the resource of friends and professional acquaintances will be as valuable as any other action you could take.

Part 1:

First, take some time to reflect on your career and/or future career. If this includes more than one career path, then focus on the one that you are most concerned with in the long term. This might include working in a specific field, starting a business, or any other pursuit you are currently working on or plan to work on in the future. The choice behind the pursuit you will focus on is a personal choice.

Write two pages on why this particular career and/or pursuit is your choice. Reflecting on the why behind your wish to achieve a goal will help to make it feel more tangible to you. This exercise of reflection should serve to remind you of your motivation and will be a good thing to refer back to if your motivation ever gets low. The "why" behind a pursuit is oftentimes more important than the "how" of a pursuit. If you have a strong enough "why," you will find the "how."

Part 2:

For the second part of this assignment, make a list of the types of people that could help you in your career and why those people would be good contacts to have. This list should be general in nature, meaning you should list professions or names of positions within companies rather than specific names.

You should list general fields or positions like accountants, attorneys, marketing managers, CEOs, etc., rather than any specific names. Be sure to list at least five professions or types of people.

Part 3:

Next, consider which social media platforms (facebook, instagram, etc) you could use to make personal contacts that could help you in your pursuit along with why and how you could use each. Ensure that the platform and your use of it line up with the specifics behind your chosen future goal.

Describe at least three different platforms you could use, along with why you would use it, and how you would use it for each of the three.

  • Platform #
    • Why?
    • How?
  • Platform #
    • Why?
    • How?
  • Platform #
    • Why?
    • How?

Part 4:

Finally, put all of this together and take action. The next part of this assignment is where you can make a big difference in your grade as well as in your real life pursuit of a goal!

Reach out through the avenue of social media and make contact with three people that you do not currently know. Describe who you contacted and why (you do not need to give their specific name). Explain how you went about contacting them. Contacting someone that works in the same field as you or the same field you intend to work in should be relatively easy as long as you take a professional approach. Speculate over how this new contact might be helpful to you in the future. If you are not currently using social media, then find someone that you know that has used social media to make connections. Ask them to describe how social media has helped them to network and write about social media has helped them to network and make connections.

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Psychology of social media - making contacts for the future
Part 1
I have always wanted to be one of the CEOs in one of the most successful companies
on the Fortune 500 list. This list covers some of the largest multinationals including Google,
Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft, and Amazon, among others. While this may appear to too
ambitious to many people, I believe that with the right determination, commitment, academic
success, and continuous professional growth could easily enable an individual climb the
ladder from an unknown individual in their neighborhood to one of the most reputable,
successful, and sought after CEOs in the world. Presently, it is common to encounter people
who are envious of personalities like Zuckerberg, the late Steve Jobs, Jack Ma, and Jeff
Bezos, among others who have transformed their companies into some of the biggest not only
in their respective industries and domestic markets but at a global scale as well. I understand
that reaching such a goal will definitely take time. This does not deter me from my dreams as
I feel that this is the destination that I am headed for.
There are a number of reasons that I choose this career path. To begin with, I have a
high level of confidence and I believe that I can achieve this dream in the long run. People
often fail as a result of failing to believe in themselves and sometimes giving up along the
way. Some of these career paths are challenging to achieve. However, one has to always keep
fighting in order to achieve such a goal. Regardless of the stumbling blocks and the failures
that I may encounter along the way, my determination and self-confidence will never be
shaken. At the same time, the community from which I come from needs a person who will
stir up their motivation while at the same time serving as a role model to the younger
generation for the continued commitment of the people and elevation of the society. Over
time, I have always looked up at individuals like Steve Jobs as a role model. I believe that his

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children and people who grew up with him have a higher sense of pride than that which others
have in Jobs.
I would want to be the one to revolutionize an industry and take the lead towards
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