Humans have a special relationship with baby animals. Research done by Nobel prize-winning zoologist Konrad Lorenz showed that baby animals often resemble physical traits of human babies — large eyes, snubbed nose, etc. — and humans are subconsciously fooled into applying affectionate feelings toward young animals as we would young humans. Research aside, there’s no […]
Read more "Introducing Juno, the #BlackFridayPuppy"First, I’d like to explain what the Tasty Trials are. Being an avid content consumer on major social media platforms, I normally only repost or reblog things that I deem relevant, and not many things make it into that category. On Facebook, for example, I do not repost or reblog something unless it has to […]
Read more "Welcome to the Tasty Trials"Welcome to my Top 5 Places at SU! As a student in their final semester of being on campus, I thought it would be a nice tribute to my time here at SU to pin point the 5 places that you absolutely can’t miss. Number 5 is Crouse College- One of the often overlooked buildings […]
Read more "Top 5 Places at SU!"Memories I’ll Never Forget I spent this past summer as a beat reporter intern for the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League. The CCBL is the most prestigious amateur collegiate summer league in the nation and embodies the pure nature that baseball draws its roots upon — playing solely for the love of […]
Read more "Cape Cod Baseball League – The Best Summer of My Life"Let’s face it, we live in a society that is full of viral content. From YouTube videos such as the ALS challenge to meme’s centered around Alex from Target and grumpy cat, they all have one thing in common: they evoke emotion. With this insight I developed after a personal analysis of viewing a wide […]
Read more "Finding Beauty in the Simple Things"Making something go viral isn’t an easy task. In theory it should be simple enough, just get something shared by a lot of people, but in reality it is much harder than that. For me, I had to really think about what types of things usually go viral, like memes, gifs, etc. All of these […]
Read more "It’s On Us"For this assignment I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what to make for the content. Memes were too obvious, sure they are viral in nature, but I wanted to go into a different direction. Most of the other things that I saw that had gone viral were either a very cute […]
Read more "Buffalo Businessman"For the Viral Content Challenge, I decided to create an image with text, using a photo I took of a beach. The text on the image represents “6 ways to be happy now,” as I think that this is an important, and often over thought, idea, which has the potential to be viral on social […]
Read more "Viral Content Challenge: The Virality of Happiness"#MAMB stands for Making Average Moments Beautiful. This is a social media campaign initiative with the objective to get young adult social media users to find something beautiful even in the most average of days. I want to encourage others to find a reason to love and appreciate even their worst days. [pin_widget url=”https://www.pinterest.com/pin/68609594300634643/”] Description: This card […]
Read more "Let’s Get Viral"Virality is something that we all aim for as social media users. We’re constantly watching video after video, seeing meme after meme, wondering how they became so popular in the first place. If you’ve ever been on Twitter, Vine, Facebook, or really any social media platform, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Sometimes this […]
Read more "#SpreadJoy: If You’re Happy And You Know It, Post It!"