My Experience with Reddit

After using Reddit this past week I feel like my overall opinion on the website has changed. At first glance when you look at the website it feels like an unsecure webpage. Now a days if something is poorly designed orlaid-out it is my first instinct to assume the website is no good or it could likely give your computer a virus. Although this website lacks charisma, it is very useful and full of active users trying to voice their opinions. After using Reddit more and more I became acquainted with how it works, subreddits are cool, and I found some smaller subreddits that have a lot of relevant information.

The subreddit I chose to participate in the most was a GoPro subreddit. It has 26,000 subscribers so it is very active and I mostly chose it because I have a GoPro camera and I have had some questions I needed answered. It was helpful to find out what things worked for other people and their cameras. I like this subreddit better than some other popular ones because it is not based mostly on opinions, it is either things that can be helpful when using the GoPro camera, and what will not be helpful. When posting on reddit I noticed that it would not let you post tons of things at once, it made me wait a few minutes before commenting on different posts, which I felt made reddit less like a conversation, more like a place where you do not have to check as frequently.

I posted a question starting a new thread asking about which mounts would work best while surfing, I only got two responses, both were useful and answered my question, one was actually a company that invented a product to solve my problem when surfing with my GoPro camera. Thanks to reddit I may actually invest in this product since it was made to solve my problem, and whoever commented on my post gave me some genuine advice. I commented on one post that had a question about what to do when first getting your GoPro camera, so I recalled my experience when getting my camera and all the useful things I would have wanted to know when I started using my camera. I also commented in a rather large thread about a video a user posted showing how to DIY a feature that is helpful when using the camera.

Although I focused most of my time on reddit to the GoPro subreddit, I did poke around and see some other more popular categories. I find the ones like showerthoughts, woahdude, circlejerk and mildlyinteresting to be very funny and entertaining but I would never post in any of these. I did also look into some more serious subreddits like atheism, debatereligion, and Catholicism they all seemed very intense and heavy topics that I would feel inferior to all other people that post, even though it is anonymous. I now believe that reddit is a great community, for anything from questions, intellectual conversations, general knowledge and interaction between other community members because of its anonymous platform.