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Personal Media Usage

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     It is pretty obvious that social media has quite literally taken over our lives. Social media is how we communicate with the rest of the world and is a part of our daily routines. It is clear that social media is going to continue expanding far beyond our imaginations.       Let's start from the beginning. Before I ever received a phone, I had an iPod first and when that got old then I upgraded to an iPad mini. I used these devices mainly to play games on road trips and things of that sort but even then my parents restricted me on how much time I was allowed to spend on these devices. My parents had a rule that I was not allowed to have a phone until I was thirteen which at the time seemed ridiculous that my parents made me wait that long. Looking back now, thirteen even seems a little young to be responsible enough to have a phone and I am glad that my parents didn't let me have one before that age. Since a lot of my friends had gotten phones at around ten or eleven, I re