Layla Brownfield

   Twitter. Whether we've known, just learned, or maybe still aren't sure, how to use it; we all know exactly what it is. Social media has expanded with Twitter; it's become more fun! It's a quick, easy, and witty way to interact with friends and strangers who we call our followers.    Oh, followers. They seem easy to get, right? Wrong! My first thought when I read up on this module and assignment were, "Oh! Hashtags and tweets? To gain followers? How hard can this be?!" Not super complicated, but not easy, either.     The first step I took was following people I know. I followed friends and classmates to make my Twitter timeline a little more lively and familiar. Then, I followed a few of my favorite celebrities and sports teams so I could stay updated on what was happening and when (which, was very useful, and a lot quicker than Googling news on them and scores!).     After going through some of the links in this modu...

   In his TedTalk, Jon Ronson brings up one of the most important, and true, points that relate to social media. The very first minute in, Ronson says, "voiceless people realized that they had a voice". That caught my attention immediately because that is one of the main things I constantly see on Twitter. Twitter, and so many other social media sites, revolve around one major thing; people giving their opinions. Their "voice" is their opinionated and biased tweets-- which are usually a response to something in the news, or something someone else tweeted. Ronson uses the example of, "i f a newspaper ran some racist or homophobic column,   we realized we could do something about it.   We could get them". It's one hundred percent true. For example, log onto Twitter and search up Donald Trump's profile. Click on any of his tweets (seriously, any), and the replies are all over the place. Because most people dislike Trump for the nasty person he i...

    Facebook news, in my eyes, isn't real news 99% of the time. When I click onto Facebook, my newsfeed ends up filled with not only crazy, non-sense status updates, but also news articles and links. But, t he news is never “real” news. Most of the time, it tends to be news about which celebrity is sleeping with who, or which designer made the best impression during fashion week. Rarely is it ever something that is actually important and needs to be known all throughout the world. But, I think that is sort of a good thing the more I have thought on it. I would rather be seeing information about fashion week or sports teams than reading something about some sort of terrorist attack (though, tragically, that has happened to become information in the news quite often). Facebook isn’t the only place, though. News is everywhere, except, the one place everyone used to know it from; newspapers. It’s so rare to see someone reading a newspaper. I’d gone into Target recently for g...