The Great Escape

Social Media Who?

Hello, my name is Melina. I am currently fifteen years old. My parents finally got me my first smartphone. I have always felt so left out because all of my friends got their first smartphone when they turned thirteen. I feel so behind on all of the social media apps. I decided to go talk to my best friend, Ashley, she was pretty much a social media guru! I called Ashley and asked her to come over. Ashley got to my house and I showed her my new phone. 

 "Melina! Oh my gosh! You finally got a smart phone!"  

"Yea I know, it only took me two years"

 "It's about time you finally got rid of that dinosaur"

 I had a flip phone since middle school and I absolutely refused to bring it out in public. I had taken it out once and got made fun of. 

 "haha yea, definitely glad. Anyway, Ashley, what can you tell me about social media?" 

 "Oh, honey! don't you know who I am? I am literally the QUEEN of social media."

 "Yea yea I know. I just want to get established." 

 "Okay, so obviously the first thing you are going to want to install is Instagram! On the app, you can post pictures of yourself and of things going on around you! I literally have 1000 followers!" 

how on Earth does she have 1000 followers?! Oh yeah, she has had it for a while. 

 "That's awesome Ashley, will you help me set up a profile?" 

 "Sure hun, let get it started" 

 We get started on making my profile, first, we inserted a picture of me. I really do not believe that I am all that pretty, especially not compared to Ashley. She has beautiful, long blonde hair and pretty blue eyes that look like the ocean. I just had plain basic short brown hair and brown eyes. Kind of mediocre in my opinion. Then we inserted the rest of my information, including my name, bio, and username.

 It looked like this:

 Username: melinarosee 

 Name: Melina Johnson 

 Bio: "Be yourself, there's no one better" 

 10th grade class of 2040 

 Ashley is my bestie! go follow her @/princessashley 

Ashley then spoke:  "It is finally done and it is SOOO cute! Let's post a picture together"

 "Alright, ready when you are" 

 I asked my mom if she would take a picture of me and Ashley. We hugged each other and made peace signs in the picture. After the picture was taken we got ready to post it

"Melina! We need a cute caption, how about "besties for the restie? #bestfriends"

 "Alright, I like it" 

 "Make sure you tag me!" 

 We posted it and I got a few likes. Ashley then grabbed her phone and followed me and then she gave me a shout out so all of the people at our school would know I had an Instagram account. I gained ten followers instantly, one of them being my crush since ninth grade, Jayden. I screamed and then spoke to Ashley:

 "Jayden just followed me OH MY GOSH" 

 "That is great Hun!" 

 My mom calls us to get ready for dinner, we were going to eat at Geronimo's, our favorite pizzeria. We got ready and then headed downstairs to get ready to go.