The book Status Update, by Alice E. Marwick, introduces the readers to the book by defining Web 2.0. Unlike Web 1.0, it includes interaction, collaboration, active participation, and user generated content. The users of social media platforms, such as blogs, social networks, and photo sharing sites, create the interactive dialogue. In a communication class that…
For years and years I’ve volunteered at and attended events that were created to raise money for cancer research. I’ve participated in walks/ runs and watched as my sisters, along side my dad, shaved their heads raising thousands of dollars for pediatric cancer research with the St. Baldricks non- profit. I’ve gotten three haircuts in…
I had constantly thought about starting to journal but the simplicity that comes from typing on a keyboard was extremely hard to overlook. However, after a failed attempt, and conversations with two very convincing people, I gave it a try, and I’m obsessed. I started out buying two journals. One was a recommended brand…
The only times I recommend following a limit is when your professor says that they’re not reading anything in your paper beyond the 750th word and when you could be sent to your sorority standards board for posting a picture of alcohol on your Instagram while you’re under 21. Then you should probably stop. Otherwise,…
Who’s bright idea was this? We all get hurt until we meet the right person? You better bet that if I kept falling off a bike and breaking my arm, I wouldn’t be getting back on after the 7th arm was broken. So, here’s my theory. When you’re little, you exist in the world of…
You know how when you hold someone’s hand and they rub their thumb on yours or open your hand in their lap and individually touch every part of your fingers and palm and back of your hand? Imagine if you’re sitting there on the first date holding hands and your date asks if you know…
My first really scary movie was in fact not Finding Nemo (even though we left the theater because I cried when the sharks came on). No no, it was the first scream. My sister, her best friend and I sat downstairs in the living room while my youngest sister and my dad were in the…
I don’t know about the rest of you but the idea of organizing songs on Spotify into different playlists is next to impossible. I just don’t understand how people have playlists of 135 “relaxing” songs. However, I do appreciate the people who make them when I’m studying. I also would find it extremely difficult to…
VSCO- It’s one of the newer forms of social media that seems to be a cross between Instagram and our very own Photo Gallery. It took a while for me to really understand it after being an avid Insta user for years. The app also exists as a website, giving every user their own URL. …
My study time in the library ends at promptly 7:25 in order to get back to my apartment, shower and make dinner before I turn on the television to watch, along with the rest of the world, who Nick Vigil will send home this week. The Bachelor, attracts people of all ages and if you…