Name : Ricardo Casarez

Hometown: Montclair, CA

Field of study: Majoring in Psychology

Hobbies & personal interests
- Running
-Volunteering
-Traveling
-Hanging out with Friends
-Playing Sports

What brought you to Okinawa
-Active Duty Marine
- I requested overseas

How digital media plays a role in your day-to-day life
- Nowadays Social Media plays an important role in our life, we are using it to keep in touch with our friends and make some new friends. We are living in a time where all we want is to be connected and have everything up to date.

What you like or dislike about digital technology
- What I like about digital technology is that it is literally in the palm of your hand and your able to access different apps in a split second. What I dislike about digital technology is at any instant technology has the ability to stop working and need to troubleshoot the problem. In other case, sometimes the technology that we use slow and does not satisfy our needs.

How is digital media used differently in the United States & Okinawa?
- Here in Okinawa we use digital media the same if not more due to new technology advancing quickly. I think that no matter where you go you will always find somebody using technology or social apps.