Social Media

Everyone is Copying 👻

This week 👨📘 came out with a 🆕 update that added a 🆕 feature to their 📱 app: 👨📘 🎥. This is just another 👣 that 👨📘 has taken in their move to become more like 👻 and Instagram. First it started with 👨📘 adapting their 💬 app to be more like 👻 with the option of adding stickers…

Finding a 🕴️ is a😧 🍑

We were asked to use emoji to tell a 📚. My 📚 has to do with 🕴️ and the lack of 🔍 ☝️. I 👀 ⬆️ every 🌅 and ☑️ my 📧 in hopes of an interview or an 💰. I patiently wait for a 📱. I just want someone to take a chance in me. My dream 🕴️ would be to be out on the 🛣️ representing a…

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.

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…

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…

The Oversharer Social Experiment

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I did the oversharer experiment. The first person I contacted was my friend’s mother who I never really talk to unless I go to her house. I texted her about random stuff in my day such as “I’m working out.” or “I’m going to eat…

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…