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Fictional Person (FP): Why are you letting students takeover the @MITstudents Instagram account?

Student Life Social Media Person (SLSMP): We consistently found that the content the students were putting on their own accounts about their MIT experience was funnier, more compelling, and more engaging than anything we could possibly do. It only makes sense to bring the people actually experiencing the journey on board to lead us through what life is like around here. Taking that even further, we realize that everyone at MIT sees things differently. They are from different places, in different groups, live in different dorms, so on and so forth. By changing the point-of-view every week, we think we can provide more a complete view of the school and the student body. We can possibly break down self-created walls that people build, and help them realize that there are a lot of people here that they can relate to.

FP: Is this a temporary thing?

SLSMP: No. The idea behind letting MIT students take over our Instagram account is one that we want to see happen from now until the tool is obsolete (or people stop using it, which ever comes first). Every week we want to have a different MIT student running the account. In the future, this is an approach that we want to take with all of our channels.

FP: How do students participate.