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
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