Sorry ladies... i'm not talking about the cute high heel platforms you wear on a formal date, rather the Platforms of social media. So just to name a few of these platforms so you can have an idea... Facebook, Twitter, flickr, youtube, Instagram, linkden, google+ and many many more!
which of these is my favorite?? Well 2 years ago it used to be Facebook, it dominated the social media world! Now... well its a 3 way tie, but if I had to put them in order it would be the following.
Twitter
Instagram
Facebook
so why this order? Twitter and Instagram are like a mix of Facebook, but I have noticed people are now using Twitter to post there thoughts and ideas and funny quotes and etc now instead of Facebook. People also have been posting pictures on Instagram rather than Facebook. What I personally have noticed I can check my twitter, and instagram then go check my facebook and I tend to find the same information and pictures. so that is my reasoning for the minimal use of FB.
Dont get me wrong facebook is still great, its perfect for being able to communicate with others! something that can be really annoying if done on twitter or even instagram. I love being able to use new kinds of social media and explore what is out there and of how things can be a benefit to us in some where! so go out explore and get familiar with the social media world!
follow me on Twitter and Instagram: @sicnarf1232
Dueces
-Jordan
Monday, January 28, 2013
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
AARON SWARTZ.. A NAME TO REMEMBER
As I was beginning to do research on Reddit and
RSS I stumbled upon the news articles that Aaron Swartz, took his life just
recently. News posts say that he was fighting the U.S. Government in some
cyberwars and that he most likely commited suicide for fear of losing. What
Aaron Swartz did for the Social Media world goes unrecognized but in all
reality… Changed it forever! R.I.P. Aaron.
Aaron Swartz was the Genius behind Reddit and
later merged to create RSS. These two Companies were revolutionary in the
social media world. you are probably asking yourself: “what is this so called
Reddit and RSS business??” Reddit is a website that users can post on the page
a link or a URL and other users may vote for that link or URL to go “up” or
“Down” on the homepage. it is mostly used for current news and modern events.
It gives users freedom to read stuff that they enjoy. As for RSS, this may
sound more familiar. RSS changed the social media world in the aspect of
”automatic updates”. For example if you look at the bottom of this blog
post you will see a small icon in the bottom right hand corner that says RSS,
click on that, enter your email address and you have now signed up to recieve
every single blog I will ever post!
Now you are saying ohhhhh! I have that same
thing on Youtube.com, I am subscribed to users and every time they post a new
video, i receive a notification that, that user has posted a new video! all
that amazingness, you can give thanks to Aaron Swartz.
What this man has provided for the internet,
and for the social media world is amazing! there are many things that he did to
improve the internet, but as a blogger, I dont want to tell you everything he
did! Go out, research it, and share it with the world. who knows maybe someone
will click that little RSS button at the bottom of your blog and you could
become a famous Blogger!
Dueces,
Jordan
DONT BE SUCH A BALL "BLOG"
well if you didn’t get the joke in my title… I will take the assumption that you didn’t play many sports a child. But thats okay i’m sure we will still be friends without ever knowing it!
Now what do you think I mean by don’t be such a “ball blog”? well on the street of a play ground we used to play basketball at every single recess, and every single time there was that one kid who would alway “HOG” the ball to himself, never pass it and just shoot it himself, EVERY TIME! So as I was looking into the benefits of blogging and such I have come across the fact that many many bloggers tend to only talk about themselves and nobody else around them! allow me to elaborate!
Over my time of browsing the web and lookin for helpful idea I tend to come across a blog or two with some fascinating and creative things! But many of which times I stumble upon bloggers who are just downright selfish! look at my new shoe, look at my new puppy, look at how cool my new hair is.. which are not all bad things… unless its all you talk about.
Blogging can be used in such beneficial ways it is amazing! just think about it. You have a really good friend and they decide to write just a short blog that mentions how great of a person you are. Its an instant uplifter, not only because your friend said such nice things about you but they literally said that nice thing about you on the World Wide Web! That is as close as we come these days to the romantic films of people “yelling from a roof top so the whole world can hear it” we can virtually stand on a mountain of social media and tell everyone how great others are!
Share the ball every once in a while and you will have a happy playground.
-Jordan
here are examples of what sparked the idea.
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