I am an avid user of social media, my use of social media has increased a lot due to the pandemic. Since the beginning of the pandemic, it feels as if my attention span has decreased to the point where I’m on Instagram for three minutes then I enter all the apps in a seemingly random order to see if I find anything that can keep my attention for more than a few minutes at a time. The platforms I use are Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and TikTok. Due to 2020 being an election year it seems like a lot of the information on these apps is about the upcoming election and how to request a mail-in ballot, politicians and their stances on important issues, and the overall importance of voting for the sake of rescuing our democracy.
Although Facebook owns Instagram I feel that Instagram does a better job of informing the users that the information that they are seeing may not be true. I have not seen any implementation of that fact-checking on Facebook, this could be due to the fact that I use it much less than Instagram.