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…

How much is too much information?

How much information is too much information? With the rise of digital media, privacy has lost meaning, while sharing has been taken to a whole new level. Sharing every waking minute of their day to day lives.

Experimenting with Social Norms

There are a lot of unwritten “rules” of using digital media these days that people follow without having to be told to do so; its just a “thing” you do. For example, people don’t typically post more than once on Instagram because its considered a social faux-pas. Once…

LAPTOP ALTRUISM

For this social experiment, I asked my friend if I could use his laptop for a second and do completely unnecessary things on Facebook page logged in as myself. I was incredibly hungry in the library at 12am, so I just pick my friend who was working on something on his laptop for my social…

Breaking Social Media Norms

This proved to be more difficult than I was expecting…

This past week, I tried 2 different types of social media experiments in which I broke traditional “norms” set on social media. The methods I tried were oversharing, in which I massively posted way…