Wrong Information

This past week while on vacation there was a man who barricaded himself in his house with a rifle.  The town cops were there, cops from other towns were there, the army, and the SWAT were there.  Reason for all of this was because they did not exactly who was in the house.  If it was just him or if he had taken anyone hostage in the house with him.  In the end, it was only himself and he ended up killing himself with a rifle but the cops were there for about 3 hours after that because they were not sure what exactly was going on until they went into the house and saw him on the ground dead.

Reason for sharing this you, it is because of what social media was saying about it.  I have realized that social media can share the correct info with people but as well, once someone says something that is incorrect it spreads like wild fire.  Then before I know it, there is like 10 different stories of what happened.  For example, during this incident last week, my friend lives across the street from the house and saw exactly what was going on and was texting me with the details on what was going on and what happened.  Then my other friend was texting me and said, "I was reading on Facebook and it said that the guy killed his daughter, his ex-wife, and then went to his girlfriends house and killed her and then himself".  That is almost 100% incorrect and it came from social media of course.  I just laughed because once someone posts something on social media it changes it story constantly until its almost completely wrong.  It is just the way it works and we have to realize that and not completely believe what is wrote by several people because then that means that it is most likely a hot story in the town.  As well, an incorrect one like in my case.

Facebook Photos

With the recent surprise of warm, spring like weather in early March. Everyone is pulling out all of their summer cloths because 65 feels like 85 after coming out of winter and its cold weather. On social media sites, especially on Facebook, people are constantly posting about it but one aspect that stuck out to me is the posting of pictures of themselves in their summer cloths. It has mainly been all girls that are doing it but there are probably guys who do it as well. They are showing off their shorts, tank tops, dresses, and etc. With the pictures, they put a title on top of their photos like: Spring fevers, summer weather, love this weather, cute new shirt, and so on. I find it kind of funny, because during the winter, girls did not put up this many pictures of themselves as they are now. Within the past couple days; I have probably seen as many pictures of girls in the past two days as I did in about a month or so in the winter. It is as though they feel they are obligated to tell everyone that they have their summer cloths on and show everyone that the weather is nice even though we all know that it is.

I may seem as though I am annoyed or are talking down on them, but I am not trying to come across as being mean. I have just kept noticing this trend of how girls like to show off the clothes they wear in the spring to tell everyone it is warm out. While in the winter there is half as many of these pix. I found it to be kind of comical and when the rest of the guys on my floor said that they noticed the same thing, I felt that I needed to blog on the topic to see if others agree and have noticed the same thing.

March Madness

For those who do not know, one of the greatest weeks of the year and one of the greatest months of the year is here again.  This week is Championship Week for college basketball and then the week after starts March Madness, which is the Division 1 basketball tournament to determine the National Champion.  Reason for bringing up March Madness is that it may be one of the most publicized tournaments of the year from a social media perspective.  All social media sites go absolutely crazy and there are constantly updates on all the games whenever a huge upset happens or when important games are on.  Whatever the circumstance, social media sites are always updated with the most current scores, upcoming games, and analysis of games already played.  We can pretty much not watch the games live because we can see everything we need on these sites.

My friend next door is a prime example of this topic.  He watches every game, will post on anything exciting that happens, or complain about anything that happened during the course of the game that will keep us updated on little details we may not have known if we saw highlights of the game.  He is one of many who do this and it helps support the reason for social media and its significance during March Madness.  Without any of these media sources, we would have to actually sit down and watch the game or watch the highlights on TV which can be an inconvenience for many since we are heavily on our computers all the time.