Made Contact! 2

 

As with the previous week I was to make contact with members of the group I was studying which was the LGBTQ community and they have been so gracious enough to contact  me back. One thing I am getting from this week rather than last week is a much bigger response, not in how many people responded but in how long the response was. people gave me lengthy paragraphs, and I am very grateful for them. One person even told me I could use their name if it helped. I declined saying that I am keeping everything confidential, but it was great to know that people are willing to give their name. I’m not sure a lot of people would be willing to do that. Also, I thanked those previously who had commented before and went on further saying that their comments were really beneficial to my class.

Of course I asked the same question as the previous week, “Hello friends I am a university student learning about the magnitude of social media, and I have a question for you all. What does it mean to you as a member and/or ally of the LGBTQ community to be able to connect with others on social media?” The responses were as follows: “Social media means literally everything to me it isn’t just a place to update media and what’s new but a place to meet new people and make friends we find people who understand what your going through when people you know can’t quite catch what they need to social media is where I can relax and know that there’s people out there who face the same problems as I do or anyone of the LGBTQ community would,” “…being part of the lgbt doesn’t change my view of social media unless social media’s topic is about lgbt. then the things the people say and do will change that answer. and if social media is attacking lgbt then to me it means social media is homophobic or just avoids problem so it makes them ignorant or or they haven;t been educated/educated well so they say what they were taught to not taught….” “Social media means the same to me as it would anyone else. There are things that are offensive, things that are funny, and things I relate to. Just like everyone else.”

I feel as though this week’s theme of comments back is of one in which if social media has to do with the LGBTQ community then it is enriching. Furthermore, the lgbtq community is like any other community. It has its ups and downs, funny posts, trolls, relatable stuff, cool pictures, countless memes. It is a community in which people can get together and interact with one another, it just so happens they are all apart of the LGBTQ community. That’s all.