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Reflection and Clarification
This is my first blog after my presentation on Twitch. TV, and I’ve discovered that five minutes is not very much time… I really enjoyed the opportunity to talk about something that most of you aren’t...
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Food Porn: Harmless or Harmful?
Fluffy cinnamon rolls drizzled with icing. Decadent, flaky croissant donuts drenched in sweet buttermilk glaze. Warm, chewy milk chocolate, white chocolate and Oreo chunk cookies. These are all images...
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Social Media Updates This Week: Youtube’s Comments Section, Pinterest’s...
Here are some of the biggest updates in the social media universe you may have missed this week: Youtube has changed its comments section- and it’s creating quite a stir. Last week, the video sharing...
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Are you masking your loneliness?
I recently came across a short video titled “This Video Will Have You Completely Rethink How You Conduct Yourself Online And In Person”. Initially, I thought the video would talk about...
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Loyal, Loyal, Baby!
Between the first year of my sociology program and first year of my MBA, I worked on a loyalty study to understand what programs did the best job of attracting and maintaining customers. I read a book...
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Viral in It’s Own World
In my last blog post, I noted how pervasive the discussion of success with social media has become in our lives. I wish to return to that point, this time addressing a specific measure of that success:...
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My Lonely Planet is out-of-date
My time at BC is flying away, I’ll be back home in less than 40 days. However I promised myself that I would have travelled around the US as much as time and money have allowed me to do. That’s why...
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A Blog on a Blog: Waze Presentation Follow-up
I would be lying is I said I never went to blogs for information. When it comes to sports and news, there are many fantastic bloggers that are reliable enough to gain information from rather than just...
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Social Media Updates This Week
This is an extra blog post I am completing in the place of completing the HootSuite Certification. Here are some changes in the social media sphere that you should know about: Pinterest has moved in on...
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Final Thoughts…
Rereading my first blog post titled ‘Growing up in Social Media’s boom – the pro’s and con’s’ took me back to the second week of September where I was utterly overwhelmed by the course...
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(Not So) Secretive Restaurants Anymore
Thinking back to even five years ago, people used to rely on guidebooks and locals suggestions when looking for a restaurant and bar. These often led tourists into overpriced restaurants that didn’t...
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Knot, Nest, Bump – Life Events in Web 2.0
As a follow up to my presentation on Social Media and Weddings, I want to further concentrate on the XO Group. The XO Group defines itself as “a lifestage media and technology company connecting...
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Final Thoughts: Social Media’s Impact On Our Lives
Social media has provided us new ways to interact with friends and strangers to spread groundbreaking ideas. Nobody can easily describe social media since the lines easily blur between the different...
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Think twice before posting
Our parents always told us to look both ways before crossing the street. I wonder if the new generations are hearing “Think twice before posting.” This class, coupled with my summer experience...
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What I Learned From A Semester of Social Media
As we come to the end of this semester, I look back and see all of the experience I gained with social media. I am not only leaving behind this class, but also an internship that was based around...
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Three takeaways on social media
In my final thoughts on social media, I decided to focus on my three key takeaways from the class. These are by no means my final thoughts on the subject as I will constantly be altering and adopting...
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Evolution from Cynic to Believer – Reflections on Social Media
As I mentioned in my introductory post, I did not enroll in this class because of my passion or even interest in social media. Prior to starting the class, I found social media to be an extraordinarily...
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Writing an Autobiography
I was bad at social media (and maybe I still am). My mistakes may be subtle, but they exist. Like many before me, I’ve failed to use social media at a level even close to its full potential. The...
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Advertising Fast Food to Kids: From TV to Social Media
Good news: Kids are seeing less fast food advertisements on television these days. According to a new study released by Yale, kids between 6 and 11 saw 10% less advertisements for fast food on...
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How to Be Human & Maintain a Social Media Presence: My Final Thoughts on...
I had a simple view of social media going into this class. I didn’t realize this until finally sitting down to write this post and looking back at my initial thoughts. I’m sure we can all agree that...
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Is It Really Over?
This has been an incredibly tough semester readjusting to school after an incredible internship and battling senioritis in an effort to balance enjoying what’s left of my college career and keeping up...
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An Ever-Changing Final Thought on Social Media
In a sentence, I can describe my semester-long transition of feelings on social media as going from indifferent to love-hate. To elaborate, I started my first blog stating how I didn’t care much for...
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A European peasant went to SocialMedia Land (Final Thoughts)
Before moving to the US, I considered myself a quite savvy Internet user. Whenever I need any kind of help I turn to my phone and I come up with the answer in few minutes. So when I saw a course called...
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Final Thoughts
For my final thoughts on social media, I thought it was be appropriate to go back to my first post about social media and see how my thoughts had changed. In my first post I concluded, “It’s extremely...
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When Not To Share on Social Media
I was on Reddit yesterday when I came across a link called, “Woman unknowingly live tweets husband’s death,” I’ll include a link, but I have to warn you, its pretty disturbing....
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Banned From Social Media
I recently read an article about how sex offenders who are on parole are prohibited from using social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. The article continued to say that the sex...
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Everything I wanted to write about social media (Part 1)
During the course of this class, I was overwhelmed on every aspect of my life that writing a simple post was a dauntin task. There were many times when I sat down on the computer with all the...
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Everything I wanted to write about Social Media (Part 2)
During the course of this class, I was overwhelmed on every aspect of my life that writing a simple post was a dauntin task. There were many times when I sat down on the computer with all the...
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A Website that Changed My Life (Extra Post)
I looked back at all my other blogs and was really trying to sum them all up in on last post. This is my extra blog as a replacement for a HootSuite certification. I figured I already gave my final...
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Whisper harnesses the power of anonymity to create a judgment free social...
Whisper, the anonymous secret sharing social network that aims to connect people through shared experiences, is rapidly growing its user base and attracting the attention of both big VC’s and the tech...
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