Social Media Change

Angel Reyes      New Technology Assignment             Social media is constantly evolving in today’s day in age. Apps are made every day and pretty soon there will be an app for anything you could possibly need, even though there almost already is. With the recent news of Facebook and how they have been selling our personal information I can see security being a top priority in the future. I can also see how AR is growing and getting better, so maybe AR will surpass the need for security. Although the two points I’ve made have great value, I think that after all is said and done we will still want that need for competition.             I know personally that I am a competitive person and if I can compete against someone I want to win. Competition breeds innovation and excitement and that is why I believe that including Gamification into social med...

United Breaks Guitars             Well here we are again, I have never heard about Dave Carroll or his band but the discussion today on how United Airlines mishandled his luggage is quite hysterical. Guitars can get quite expensive and if an airline is mishandling your guitars it can make you get pretty angry. In this case we are told that Dave writes to United about his concern and never receives an apology. We are also told that United is infamous for their terrible customer service, which for such a successful company makes you wonder why. Dave writes a song about United and it gets a lot of attention, probably first from his immediate fan-base and then later to the rest of the world. Crazy how a well written and executed song from a semi-famous guitarist can cause so much controversy.             The power of social media is yet again shown in this c...

            Personally, I don’t listen to “OK Go” but the fact that they made a video on a plane with zero gravity, and made it choreographed is insane! I noticed that something the band strives for is challenging themselves. They challenged themselves by making a video on a plane, but they didn’t just want to do lots of random things on the plane and just edit the whole thing together. They made sure the video had a purpose, since they make music without a music video in mind it really needed to follow the flow of the song. Once they had the idea it needed to be funded and they got a Russian airline to fund it. Some pretty cool facts about the actual process can be found here .             One of my main findings on number of video view was how YouTube and Facebook count a view. I found out that YouTube counts a view of a video after the video has been watched for 30 seconds...

            I honestly can’t believe that a company would make a video like the one I saw from Miracle Mattress. Although I can see how this company, or at least the 3 employees in the video, would try to view 9/11 as a business opportunity it did not resonate well with society.             In class, we have been talking a lot about how anything you put up on the internet will be there forever. This includes the video that was made by Miracle Mattress, as you can see here the video isn’t officially owned by whoever posted it. They had to record the video on a separate device that was playing the video. What I can understand is the possibility of growth for a business and using current seasons and holidays to their advantage. The issue was that the world, at least the U.S, doesn’t see 9/11 as a holiday or even a positive remembrance. This company tried to use 9/11 as a holida...