Hey Social Media, brb!
Categories: Connect
On a cold, dark Tuesday night, alone in my room, I wrote a short note saying goodbye to my friends, my followers, and the world. Starting Wednesday I would abandon updates, forget Facebook, turn away from Tumblr—I was quitting social media! Along with several TNGG members, we decided to experience the effects of removing social [...]
New Skittles Website: Taste the rainbow. And again, and again.
Categories: Shop
Recently, Skittles has launched a new website. The re-design involves a social media savvy effort and a repetitive scroll down button.
Analog > Digital
Categories: Connect
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – there’s something to be said for actual, face-to-face human contact. You can’t replace it. You can’t duplicate it. Even in this day and age, where you can feasibly know every important piece of information about someone’s life without ever having spoken to them – or, [...]
And the award goes to… TWITTER!
Categories: Connect
Sunday night was the big night for a little man named Oscar. I’m not one to dress up and go to a party to watch the Academy Awards. I probably wouldn’t have watched even though Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were hosting (yes, even though I’m under 30 I do know who they are!). But [...]
Social Media: A Virtual College Party
Categories: Connect
Here’s something that’s completely obvious: social media has totally changed the way we interact with others. But now, here’s something that might not be so obvious: social media has changed our friendships – how we start them, how we maintain them, and even what we consider a friendship. When you’re in pre-school and kindergarten, you [...]
The Google Buzz Value
Categories: Connect
I want to start out by saying that I am a Google fan all the way. Google.com is my homepage. I use the phrase “just Google it” just about anywhere and with anyone. If you don’t use Gmail you’re probably not a very good friend of mine. And I’m ashamed to say that I even [...]
Growing up Online
Categories: Connect
Almost everything I could possibly need is just a click away on the Internet. To me, that’s a good thing. But some people feel that Gen Y is too connected and that our dependence on digital communication is negatively impacting our lives. They say that we’re becoming disconnected from the real world and forgetting how [...]
Love in the time of social media
Categories: Sex Week
We have more freedom to go into whatever sort of relationship with whomever we want. As a result, we spend more time defining and analyzing the various aspects and ramifications of romantic and sexual relationships than any other generation in history.
Twitter: My Filter
Categories: Connect
Going through my social media/e-mail fast, I realized how much harder my life is without Twitter. Many of my digital native peers find the idea of reading what unknown people have for breakfast pointless. However, we like the idea of sharing everything, or almost everything, we do with the world. But we are afraid that [...]
Why LinkedIn Makes Me Want to Puke
Categories: Grow
While I am an occasional user of LinkedIn, it’s last on the list of social media networks (SMN) that I maintain. LinkedIn just does not deliver the same experience as the others, but initially I wasn’t sure why. After some time however, I realized my apathy toward the site was because it more closely resembled [...]
