What is Credly and what does it do? I recently learned about this product while grabbing coffee for my new internship that starts next fall. Luckily enough I got the chance to meet…

Facebook Exploits Our Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the…

Thank You for Accepting my Friend Request

Over this past weekend, I attempted an experiment from Christian Sandvig’s The Oversharer (and Other Social Media Experiments). After much pondering over which experiment to partake in, I decided on #4 The Facebook Wall Inquisitor. My job was to friend 5…

Sorry Bing Bong…

So, let me start off by saying, this is a formal apology to Jeremiah Bingham for getting him so worked up while using his laptop…

Matthew Patrick: Game Theorist and Social Capitalist

A Lie is a Lie

Fake news is everywhere. There are hundreds of websites devoted to just posting fake news. Sites like ‘The Onion’ for example…

Relationship Status = Fake

I posted the fake news on Sunday February at 12 pm on Facebook. I said I was in a relationship but I did not tag anyone else. I did not want to involve someone else in this. I told my mother before posting but no one else. Seconds after my best friend from home text me about it…

What is social media to me?

Social media is the use of different platforms to convey a message to a mass of people. This is relevant to me because I can communicate with my friends at a much faster rate no matter where they are in the world and it doesn’t cost any money. This also is relevant to me because…

Social Capital — Who’s Worth It and Who’s Not?

There is more than one way to measure your “wealth” in society. The most obvious way is economic capital — how much money a person has. Many times we associate wealth with status: celebrities have a high amount of economic capital and they have…