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Week #17 - Wrapping It Up

Overall, while I've certainly used more social media in the last semester than I have...the rest of my life, really, I don't think my viewpoint on it from a personal perspective has changed. On the business side, I absolutely see all of the reasons to use it - it's a great way to get people to pay attention to your business and your ideas, and is a great way to reach a majority of people without difficulty. I think I might prefer social media more if it was simply used for businesses, rather than being inundated with personal information that maybe shouldn't be shared so vastly.

I get way more how to use it for a business now as well. Facebook was always just a personal thing in my mind for a very long time, but this class has definitely shown how it can be used in a business acumen sense as well, driving traffic and generating revenue for the business simply by having the page at all in some cases.

For myself, however, I haven't found one that I'd like to use personally or for a business. At the moment, I'm not looking to make my own, but should that come up, the lessons learned here are definitely going to be of great value for setting something up.

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