hello my name is angela cleo smith and welcome to v y o v voice your own vision the voice your own vision broadcast comes from the collective energies of amazing partners who showcase the artists personalities that make the san francisco bay area one of the premier destinations for california residents and visitors from around the world the show features the venice social networks diverse communities and cultural offerings that underscore the dynamic environment in which we work live and play our show include special guest hosts that provide advice resources and connections for groups and individuals trying to build contacts find mentors and partners our mission is to help deep in relationships the why ovi or voice your own vision support established and emerging professionals and building their dreams translating hopes into action and meeting all challenges with grace and style and at this time i would like to welcome our co host today elise hollywood contribution to the show so let's start with elise well hello angela i am so excited to be here with the cast of the wild the and i am glad to be a part of it my name is the least hollywood evans and  or i sing dance professionally as a samba dancer so my contribution to the while he is bringing the arts and entertainment to our organization and with this past weekend celebrating my birthday we  things that i will mention at a later date however right now i'm really into telecommunications my partner business is with the telecommunications and things are growing and progress and so i am also made it and happy to be here for  and every organization needs my like that and that's what i am i grew up starting from probably the age of four i wanted to be a civil engineer i went military to do that in physics came my way that changed my life and i went economics instead so with of that it kind of threw me all over the place i've been with with math with accounting with computers and now and with beauty and put it all together and it accidentally got me here with with angela so how it did i do not know but it just came together and now i'm focusing on the beauty part of it but i'm still working on computers and accounting and all of that stuff so i'm doing it all so all you  contribution to the show is bringing more awareness in product development and manufacturing and soft i love working in the community i love that number or love working with the girls i work with middle school high school and first year college and i teach girls at a kids and how to dress and how to style so i'm a young person i were pretty bringing new trends and new styles will probably be eating at restaurants too i am really looking forward to that but the contribution to boise albinism into allow people to share their vision and share to the community what we're doing is very important that we connect and we really want to thank you for introducing yourself and for me i've been in the television business for many years and some of you may have heard of this small television station with a large personality called so the television that's where i got my start and then i've spent many years in local politics community affairs and promotion i've earned a bachelor's degree right in the city of berkeley at u c berkeley i got my master's degree in the bay area california state east bay and i'm working on my doctorate degree in public administration at capella university i'm a freelance producer for community oriented topics in the arts intertainment and education so we're going to move forward and that brings us to our topic today our topic is the pros and cons of this social media networking and just to mention that social media and social media networking is how we all got our start i've met all of them through social media so we're going to start our conversation about social and we're going to start with skyler where just tell us do you have any any negative experiences with social media or do you have any positive and let's talk about the pros and the cons well i do believe i have more pros than cons i'm really trying to really think about the cartoons and i am sure there are some there are but i do have a lot of prose i mean social media has helped me tremendously i mean it is just really great i mean so many great people in social media around the world you know i'm i have met a rep on social media and we just talked yesterday about some type of bet that she wants to do when switzerland i've met people just incredible people i love social media i mean i really do i mean i could to talk to my family and i can't really see fly to texas like you know every year but i get to talk to my mom and she could see pictures of the kids and things like that i mean business is great you know i just can't i don't have any comments about social media to go home now i want to but you know ok but yeah so you had no negative experiences you know i'm doing my dissertation on anti bully and programs and part of it is because of the cyber bullying and there are some astronomical statistics on children that are committing suicide and some of those experiences out there when they go out and shoot up schools those are victims of bullying and part of that was through the cyber network so that could be very well a con because of course the beauty of us all meeting one another for the first time and then coming together and meeting us and face to face was absolutely beautiful but then there's some concept go along with that  calling as well as part of my program but it's on the positive no you know i try to bring the girls in on a positive note because of those things that are happening at the same time but you know like for the young people i have to tell my nieces all the time look you putting yourself out there on line you have to be careful what you say and what you do and how you represent yourself because those things can follow you and they can h because i've heard horror stories or even on the news like this one young lady put a picture of herself up and then it just became viral and then she wanted to leave school and commit suicide over the picture that she took over so isn't it via the internet to her boyfriend who decided to share in a month you know that the children in the school and that to me that's like bullying to some degree oh yeah you know yes so you know the young people especially even adults have to be really careful of how we represent ourselves because you know i am guilty  i'm a model and i take a lot of photographs and you know some of them are in bathing suits and they push the edge or whatever so i'm careful about my reputation i represent myself  seem like you want to say something and you're just like that's what i thought about we're talking about exactly what the one thing about social media is that it's wonderful information but for me i really do think that we need to do it during business hours for the most part because a lot of times then people ok from eight to five there on the computer ok then from five to midnight they're on the computer and then they don't realize that their parents who are in a different generation are out there hav fun partying hard while we're going like this oh look at that little that commercial i loved it literally a little woman is the only good little kitty cat and then her parents out there having a good old time going travelling skiing bike riding worst in other words people are wasting lots and lots of time on honest yeah social media sites you know when you said ninety five for me i call myself a social media strategist  i've created that because we're in that era but at the same time i don't want to lose that inner personal relationships i meet face to face and that's part of the reason why we meet up once a month and have a gathering of people who get together so we tell them come from behind those computers so and then at the same time don't waste your time on computers but one thing for sure for me i can look at the pros definitely at the polls because i met you  oh really i saw you ok but yeah but the point is is that he was moving from nebraska at the time to california right and my network on facebook is very very large and so when the key also now i'm looking at the internet and i'm like you know what i have to do any more i can do from here so that time consuming thing comes into play because right it takes more than i want to get yeah no absolutely absolutely but you know it's very interesting though that issue about six six degrees of separation i really focus on that a lot because it's kind of scary with linked in they now have the picture on the side word shows that if me and him were to meet it would show him and me and then all the people in between that we know that we didn't know now we know together and it's like how do they know my second cousin back in the brasco you know  and he's here in california how did he know her and it's very scary you don't know who knows who yeah it with that that's why i do live it because that is eighty percent of my business and without it i would have to spend thousands and thousands of dollars just to get that connection and when social media has tremendous amount of money and i look at the pros there are cars because the it's very important to us that we stay on social media because that's where they are definitely remissness yeah but it's kind of hard to manage like you know i work full time and i'm and i am a parent and it's like i signed up for  twitter late then facebook i don't know if i can say all these names i mean but pinterest all of it and then people want to talk to you right so it's like oh my god i can't spend all day on the internet when i work full time and then you say then i don't want to go home spend another five hours on the computer talking to people but i get how necessary it is you know especially when you're promoting your so because i'm really trying to brand that you lease hollywood evans brand but since you know i'm doing it myself and takes a lot of time so i mean it's a pro and a con because people are beginning to know me and i'm beginning to people are contacting me about wanting to be a part of the i mean on the entertainment side you know managing that oh my god like i need a social media strategist just to handle my life because if i had more time on e mail or facebook any of us going to drive me nuts you know those are soft skills that's where young girls come in and take over and guide them and those are really hot in a positive way and she loves that i don't even have to worry about it so i can go and do other things so that's what's sauce for high school student a college student to learn because that's where they are we'll look at me because i need to have now you know and again we go back to how the positive side of meeting friends and building our relationships and like my family lives in sacramento and i have i don't always know what they're doing even though it's you know fifty sixty miles away but i don't get a chance to get there often so i'm able to see the picture and keep up with up to date with my nieces are doing in college and so all of that is good and at the same time all my nieces are connected to me so i'm watching every move so is watching as the world is watching yeah because again going back to because of our generation we didn't grow up with the internet and and at the same time we have to move with with time so we're we're talking point where if we don't move with the internet then we're going to be left behind and at the same time a kid and that's with someone you know trying to get a feel of who they are as a person to write one good thing about it also is that if if elise and i were doing a party and if she says the kita he's a great singer i'm going to trust her i'm going to look online see what everybody else says about him i don't just have to listen to her i can listen to five hundred other people to check it and that's another thing it's just not just listening to one person or listening to five hundred more if the computer happened to go a little slow it's almost like oh what i mean come on the computer right now and we have we need to kind of slow down a bit and then right you know smell the coffee and get and quit moving so fast but at the same time because i'm moving so fast i get a chance to learn what's going on in the news today i can turn on facebook find out what entertainer is doing whatever or evolving some some policy passed or if someone's advocating for something i know it just by facebook because if someone asked me have you heard this of that and it might it came out just that morning if i say i don't know it's almost like i'm not in the know so i have to look through facebook twitter and then of course i have a professional net and we do we have web site that you can you can mix and mingle and meet people tell us about who you are give us your profile and we'll get a chance to give you that information later about our website and how to get in touch with us because we are a new show in the bay area and we're trying to make it where we'll have guest on our show and when we say voice your own vision you know i have i have a vision elise and nikita and so on we all have our own vision and at the same time we bring in experts who's talking about maybe environmental issues that's something that they'll be able to voice their vision and so this is all part of what we're doing and again every month we do feature one of one guest person artists entertainer  educator and we find out what they're doing in our community because i think it's important that we learn what's going on in our own san francisco berkeley richmond area say oh yeah we were talking about the bay area but then again our our conversation today our topic it's about social media and isn't that around the world people who are watching us right now our c n n crossed the world and they're saying bit but before we do if there are some final final things that you want to say because we have just a few more minutes let's start with you skyler just tell us if there's a way to get in touch with you how can we do that and know looking for fabrics and things like that but yes please come out and look us up on the web site do you have a website that we can just you can go to mary kay dot com backslash and eyes and i k k nick nick is running so mary kay dot com backslash leg nick and with what i do it's a it's been a joy learning about the y o v it's been a joy just getting into my beauty you know because beauty consultant and i really do think we can go far with this and i can go far and i look forward to the adventure i really do and for me you can find me on face book as well and that would be of course facebook slash captain low key and that's captain low key which is key and that's how you can find me on facebook which is the best way  and you know we we have a website it's a professional net and it's part of our networking through b y o v and you can reach us at professional net dot ning dot com and you can also e mail us at  professional net website at g mail dot com and again i want to thank you very much for being here today because you know i really really appreciate the fact that we were able to come together i want to thank all my camera crew from today because you guys did a wonderful job and you know you always have to say thank you want to say thank you to admin and micky and david and jody and  young people and old you could be any age and there's producers here and here at berkeley community media and you can also look them up it's called berkeley community media dot org and they're located at twenty two thirty k boulevard right here and berkeley california and again i want to thank everybody who's been involved up to this point because we had so many people who were able to join in on our networks and again we do it once a month and i'm just loving it and the fact that we still have one more minute to go it's really fun and i what this is all part of the fun and i hope i hope you had a chance to get to know the personalities of the because we don't get a chance to do studio as much as we'd like to and we really enjoy it because now we get to sit down and talk to one another because most of the time we talk to other guests and that's what we usually do but we know we never sit down and talk to one another we need to talk you know what you need to come from behind those computers and talk to us more often we need to get together and besides the networking and and just become that family that we are again i want to thank everybody for tuning in today i hope you enjoyed the show and get a chance to see who we are as the