It is a good way to learn a lot of information fast without having to do your own research.

I remember when Black out Tuesday happened I saw a bunch of stories telling people to delete their posts if they hashtagged the picture with #blm because it flooded the hashtag page with black screens and pushed all the resources to the bottom

I don't have twitter so I'm not sure how it works on there, but this is like on instagram it shows you the trending hashtags, and you can search fot things by hashtag

It's funny how so often ideas that get shot down are the most successful

I also think this when I see people having full conversations in Facebook or Instagram comments. Just call them or something instead

This seems really recent to me, but at the same time I guess the internet wasn't huge before this

It is cool to see how the purpose of social media evolves. Even with phone plans now that allow unlimited text messaging people are still using twitter just as much or maybe more than they're messanging app.

Is this saying grindr is what the people who download it use it as? there is no one true use to the app

preponderant influence or authority over others

I agree with this and think it extends further than just facebook and grindr. It can also include instragram, tinder, my space etc

This also happened with Ryan Lochte at the Rio Olympics after he lied about being robbed. Many of the brands who originally were sponsoring him didn't want to be associated with someone who was so reckless, agressive, and then lied.

Schools need to brand in order to set themselves apart from other institutions. This is what helps them to attract new students

All stuff that is pretty relateable to the general public

"the act of spreading something"

This makes sense to me. If I'm scrolling on my phone and don't understand something almost immediately to reading it I will move on.

This is like the dove commercial. Someone in class said it would not have been shared so much if it had a negative meaning about the women.

Im no history buff, but didn't mr washington do bad things? is this photoshop supposed to praise the cop or call attention to the fact that we praise a horrible person

it feels like the point of his video was lost on so many people

i don't understand what this means. Is it saying that if memes were simply surface level humor it would be easy to just forget about them or end the different trends?

I'm getting from this that the message a meme text is intending all depends on the actual meme picture used.

I agree with this. I can send online content to my friends or family no context either because I think it's funny or because I related to it

It is cool to see how the definition of internet meme has evolved as our technology and internet presence has also evolved

I agree with the annotations about the sentence before this that there are so many viral things that I'm just like "why", but then there are other people who imitate it and keep growing it

It is also cool to see how we have evolved to include technology in our everyday lives while still holding onto old culture

It's cool to see how these are connected

makes me think of a social media hole when I'm scrolling on something and the next thing I know I'm on the page of a person I don't even know

I just watched a show that the company it was about was tracking their social media and how many people liked, shared, etc. and I thought it was so interesting to see how much it actually affected the business

it is cool to see how modern media that I am a part of is still being affected to this day by something that was before my time

This is also really interesting to think about that media has different parts to it that are important to communication just like the sentences we speak have them

I think its really cool to think of pictures this way. It reminds me of pointilism art, but the dots are so small and precise that the image is seamless

Gifs are cool because they can be created by anyone

Under "Conclusion": It is a good tactic for companies to use GIFs because they don't demand much attention. Companies can use GIFs to just get their punchline product across in a fun way

I couldn't highlight the section under "Reaction GIFs", but my friends and I do this all the time when texting. We send a gif instead of a worded response

This is interesting to me because I pronounce it with a hard 'g' because of the way it is spelled, but the engineer did not intend it that way