Blog Forum Post Two

Hello!
   I haven't really taken a look at the kinds of things that I follow on my Facebook lately, but I did notice three that stood out to me; "College Humor", "I f*ing Love Science", and "SomeEcards". First off, College Humor is ridiculously funny, I absolutely love the skits they do. They also post some pretty funny articles such as one that I just read called "The 10 Most WTF Shipped Couples," of course with Elsa and Jack Frost at the top of it...Big surprise, right? And if you haven't heard of the massive Jelsa ship you should look into on apps like iFunny, or Deviantart. But on to the next one, I f*ing Love Science, they post some pretty interesting articles as well, and they aren't boring ones, which makes it even better. I think that the reason I initially "liked" the page was because of how they presented the articles, they first thing that the show on their posts is a picture that captures my attention, then my attention drifts to the title of the article and it just make me want to click on it. Last, SomeEcards really make my day. The sarcasm ones of them really get me. Some of them even apply to how I'm feeling at the moment and if I can relate to it and it still be funny then that makes it all that much better.

   Looking on my Facebook some more, I was scrolling through my newsfeed and I came across my friend who shared a picture that said something along the lines of "How I'm handling life"( I lost the post so I don't think that's exactly what it said, but..) and it had a girl slowly knitting herself a bright red yarn cocoon, and I don't even know why it was funny, but the last little frame of he picture had her all covered and laying down on her side. I'm seriously wondering if I could do this. If I could figure out where it went, I would "like" that so hard.

   To be honest, I don't really follow the government or politics, unless it's something that really captures my attention. So I can't really give you an honest opinion on that. If it is something important, I usually hear it from my grandparents, who only watch the news for their source of information. If anything the things that Facebook keeps me most updated on is the things that are going on within my community, like when South Albany is presenting a play, or like who's having a garage sale and where. I just tend to avoid things like politics, and the government because some stuff is just extremely frustrating.

   One concept that Jeff Jarvis brought up was really there being very little need for the advertisement business, because you can count on the consumers of your product to spread word about your service and your product quality. I also very firmly agree with the fact that there should be someone on the inside to help not only work with the customers, but also make sure that the people are being heard by said business.
   I'm currently working at a pizza joint by the name of PizzAmore, some of you may have heard of it, if not it's a little hole in the wall that serves primarily Italian food. But if you do know about us, then you know that we're famous for our garlic rolls (not knots, not "buttons," ROLLS). That's beside the point though, walking into the restaurant you may see the "Like Us on Yelp" sticker we have up, our restaurant doesn't do advertising and we trust our customers to pass the word along(whether good or bad) to their friends, and so on and so forth. We strive to make sure that everything is correct and we work to please all of our customers, but not everything is perfect because, yes fast food and restaurant workers are human too. When something goes wrong, the servers try to fix it first, then if they can't handle it or are unsure, they take it to the management level to see what they do. We're a small place and we do what we can. If you want to check out some of our reviews, you can find them on our PizzAmore Yelp page.
   One of the other things that was discussed about Jarvis was the "Internet Arguments" video. One of the first things that he answered, was that the internet is a way that anyone can express themselves in anyway. Damn straight, excuse the language, but I completely believe that its a way to express yourself. If I want to start a blog and post about things like relationships, or make-up, or video games, or whatever, if you don't like what I'm writing then you don't have to read it. My Facebook is full of photos and status updates, and some of them have comments and some of them don't. The comment sections is the perfect example of how I or anyone else can express ourselves. Granted if it's offensive, I have the ability to respond to it, or to take it down, but the opinion can still be presented.