Social media has increasingly become an outlet for people to express their political views. With the 2016 Presidential Election less than a year away, people have been Tweeting away, both supporting and bashing their favorite and most hated candidates. But one candidate who gets a lot of attention? The Democrat’s frontrunner, Hillary Clinton. I decided […]
Read more "#Hillary2016: A hashtag with positive and negative connotations"This hashtag is important to me, most obviously, because I am a woman. #YesAllWomen is a hashtag that stands against misogyny and violence against women. It gives women a voice to share their own experiences of feeling discriminated and harassed by men. #YesAllWomen more directly acknowledges that although not all men commit this harassment, all women […]
Read more "#YesAllWomen"It’s that time of year again where national budget cuts propose to limit the amount of funding giving to the Corporation for National and Community Service which overseas the AmeriCorps programs as well as the SeniorCorps programs. The proposed cuts would mean a loss of 20,000 AmeriCorps positions across the nation. There are a handful […]
Read more "#Stand4Service: The Fight for Funding"So what’s the Fuss? #BoycottStarWarsVII was a hashtag that was created by a small group social media ‘trolls’ to try and possibly stir-up some fuss on social media. Let’s check out some thoughts. The #BoycottStarWarsVII tag — you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, plus people making fun of them. — Popehat […]
Read more "Social Media: A Box Full Of Hashtags"When it comes to Black Friday, you either love it or you hate it. As someone who dislikes shopping to begin with, the idea of bracing frenzied hoards of shoppers (especially the day after stuffing my face on Thanksgiving) is an obvious “pass” for me. I have heard first-hand accounts from those who survived experienced the madness […]
Read more "#OptOutside Instead Of Black Friday"Millions of calendars across the world marked November 29, 2015 as the day of Climate March. Across the globe, people marched in solidarity to raise awareness and hope to make change on the issue of climate change and control on our beautiful planet. Cities like Seattle, Berlin, and Sydney were just a few places involved […]
Read more "#ClimateMarch"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 […]
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