The article has mentioned quite a few examples of hashtags and I have not been familiar with any of them. I wonder if I am too young to have been familiar with them- I just find it weird because I have been on twitter sense 2010.

I have noticed that many trending hashtags, especially on twitter, are often current event related. I think this is a great way to spread news and make change.

I have never heard of this website I'm curios if it is still a thing

I would be curious to now how long it took people to adapt to the use of hashtags

I agree that "@ing" someone can be a problematic thing especially on twitter, I feel like its similar to facebook in the sense that people tend not to hold back on their opinions and fighting on social media. for example when I was growing up twitter fights were a huge thing.

This seems like it would be really annoying especially if you were trying to "stalk" peoples social media

this is interesting because I didn't know that "twittering" was a thing (maybe because of my age and when I joined twitter) but I thought it was always called tweeting

I think this is a smart strategy and way for the app to be set up. I am not sure if other dating apps do this, I think many you can set the distance but I dont think they order the people from closest to farthest.

This number is crazy

I knew someone who had a grindr prior to this article I also associated it to be like tinder but strictly marketed and made for the LGBTQ community.

I always thought Insta famous meant they were famous on Instagram not that they got a large following in a short amount go time. (instantly)

I think this is something that occurs a lot. A lot of people don't get the public recognition due the resources they have available to them including their "lack" of public identity. I would imagine the hardest part of being a celebrity is getting your name out there.

The phrase used in this sentence "taking risks" stood out to me because that is such a huge part about marketing and branding. It is all about taking risks and seeing what works and what doesn't.

I am a business major and we talk a lot about marketing and similar topics but we haven't touches much on self branding and I find this point interesting especially regarding the problems that may roc cure from it.

I find it interesting they only break these into two categories. I find that as important as human is in regards to spreadable media and mems etc. but people have so many different sense of humor so what one person finds funny another may not.

This is an interesting point that I hadn't though much about before reading this article.

I saw many other students comment on this claim as well. I don't necessarily disagree with this statement rather I was really shocked by it but I also reflect back onto the things I repost and share and many of those things are spreading positive messages as well.

I really like the way the described this. I found it was very easy to understand exactly what he was thinking.

tone and style is something I find as a repetitive theme in the communication major. It seems to be a very cruital competent to how many things are interpreted.

I think its funny that used Britney Spears as an example in this article.

I find this an interesting concept. It is defiantly true that memes are created for a number of reasons. There are many different purposes and a lot of the time that are to spread an idea but as this article is implying another purpose is to have a certain behavior result from the meme.

I find this shocking I would have thought when people study or look at memes that would focus on the message trying to get across which I would associate with communication. Therefore I am not sure if I am just understanding Mehta this section is trying to say or if this is just a very shocking statement.

I often thing this exact though with many things that blow up. And in the opposite sense I have seen really good content from people who barely got any recognition and felt they deserved it to because more successful.

I very vividly remember when this video first came out and how big it got but I didn't realize that it was the first clip to surpass the one billion view mark. I am very surprised by this.

I feel like the purpose of this is to engage uses on the sites but most of the time when something like this comes up I just ignore it so I'm wondering how successfully this approach works.

I find this point interesting that is is almost saying that is the purpose or objective of spreadable media and it makes me wonder why some media is Taggert more to be shared than others. I feel like especially social media the purpose is to interact and share etc. hints why it is called "social" media. I am also curios what forms of media aren't supposed to be "spreadable".

is this suggesting that word-of-mouth is the best way to spread (share media) as opposed to sharing via technology. Because I think for myself personally I usually end my friends Instagram post, tweets, and tie toys over text but I rarely show someone a funny tip Tok in person.

I think I understand the overall point of this section but I am kind of confused about the world wide web being " completely modular". What do they mean when they describe it as modular?

I find this comparison between old media and newer media really interesting. It just reminds me of how much technology has improves over the years and how we are able to do so much more advanced things in more efficient ways.

this whole section on numerical represntaion is confusing to me is it all implying that you can edit photos by using math? Because it uses the example about removing noise from photos which seems to be talking about editing.

This word is familiar from previous communications courses but I don't understand the meaning of it in the context to gifs.

I didn't know this is where gifs originated. I always thought of them as funny pictures found primarily on social media sites.

I Never though about the resolution for Gifs and I think its interesting to find out there is no maximum resolution.