Author: Jacqueline Fulcher

Blog Post 2 updated

Living off campus seems like its a great idea until you realize how many things you now have to take care of. Here are the tips I wish someone had given me. Are they enough for you to survive your first year off too?  

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Viral Content Challenge

Going viral does not seem like it would be a challenging thing but after setting out to do it I realized how much goes into becoming viral.


When I started this project here was my objectives were as followed:

-Post to go viral

-At least 500 views on imagur

-50 favorites on twitter

-Break the class record

Here were my results:

-Post went viral

-At least 500 views on imagur

I was not successful in getting 50 favorites or breaking the class record. I realized my strategy of tweeting out the link encouraged more people to click then favorite so by setting such a high favorite goal it was unrealistic. I needed to have just tweeted the picture if I wanted to be successful in favorites. As far as breaking the class record I do not think I failed in the category but yet I admit defeat that others were funnier than mine. I think I also would have been more successful if I did not have trouble uploading my image to twitter web cards and could have had more days to run my actual campaign. Running the twitter campaign only gained me about 200 more views on imagur. By making it public alone I was able to get 969 views. Pushing it out on imagur was my most successful tactic in going viral.

My final view count was 1137. 

In conclusion my meme went viral.

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How to Improve Facebook

I remember begging my mom to let me have Facebook back when I was about ten years old. Facebook has been a place where we all have been able to connect for your years, keep updated on each others lives, and brag about our accomplishments. For some Facebook is a place to upload vacation pics, announce they got into college, and share funny videos that made them laugh. For others it is a place where they overshare and post about things that no one really needed to know. Recently Facebook has become a hub for politics and crisis around the world. Many people have spoken out against Facebook begging for a change. The workers of Facebook are now faced with a huge social responsibility to its users. It started as a fun space to share our lives and is now a tool we all need to keep updated on the world.

My advice for Facebook to become a place where people can trust them again is to make two separate news feeds. One for our funny pics and status about our lives. The other one where they highly filter the real news. On this new news feed they can have a new button where people can vote on whether it is real news or fake news. Facebook needs to start working with their users to rid out the fake news and content that is destroying our current society. On the normal newsfeed Facebook can go back to its roots and why it was created. By separating the two people can one get the content they want and two less people will be influenced by untrue content.

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