This past week we had five high school students join Hart Associates to conduct a job shadow as part of their curriculum. I took the time to talk to them about social media, and how the industry is changing. During that time I decided to interview them on how this week changed their point of view on their future.

Interview with 5 High School Students from Hart Associates on Vimeo.

However during this discussion I think that I learned just as much from them, as they did from us. I also put the question out to my contacts on Twitter, and received a number of great questions for the students. My biggest take away from the discussion was their point of view on social media. All of them are very active in the social media, but none of them saw it as a way of marketing products or people. We had a great discussion on how brands are using it right now.

They all said that primarily they used Facebook as their main social network, which isn’t surprising. That is the most popular social network in the US right now. What did surprise me was that none of them had heard of Twitter. It made me realize that there are still a lot of people out there that really don’t know what this social network is, and how it’s changing how we communicate.

I look forward to seeing what this group of students does in the future. Who knows I might be working for one of them one day.