Drake’s ‘Take Care’ lives up to the hype and impresses
It’s here. Take Care, Drake’s long-awaited, second studio album, is finally here, ladies and gentlemen, and from the very beginning, the brilliance is evident. Showcasing more tales of the rapper’s...
View ArticleTechnology trumps only in the short run
As part of the Millennial generation, we are accustomed to being constantly plugged in to the Internet and social networking websites. We’ve grown to believe that if we are not constantly connected...
View ArticleHitting it big? Or getting hit big?
This weekend, the $656 million Mega Millions jackpot was announced, forever changing the lives of the individuals who held the winning numbers. For a couple of weeks, countless numbers of people...
View Article‘Clicktivism’ is just another fad
We’ve all seen them; those Facebook statuses accompanied by pictures of a horrific scene or terminally ill child. Maybe a friend of yours has changed their profile photo in protest of some social...
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Inside Instagram
The social network sensation Instagram has been all over the news in the past few weeks. If it isn’t offending iPhone users by releasing the app to the Android Marketplace, then it’s being bought out...
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Olympic criticism reflects our changing tastes
Courtesy of MCT It has been two weeks since the 2012 Olympic Games in London closed on August 12, but at least among the perpetual naysayers on social media outlets like Twitter, an even bigger talking...
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MTV talks more tweet than music
Courtesy of MCT In years past, MTV viewers have been treated to award shows with shocking, funny and always-vulgar banter that takes place between host and nominees. The 2012 Video Music Awards (VMAs)...
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#this: We’re ghosts in a social machine
Like. Tweet. Retweet. Reblog. Favorite. Share. It’s apparent—if not downright obvious—that the way in which we interact with one another is changing. The way that we as humans have come to share and...
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#this: We are what we tweet
Two weeks ago, I discussed the downright daunting scale of social media’s influence in today’s society. More than that I hoped to stress the human and, perhaps unsurprisingly, social aspects of...
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Devil’s Advocate: Employers should be able to ask for personal passwords in...
Photo Illustration by Robert Huskey / Daily Titan Social media: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Foursquare, Livejournal, and Google+.Sometimes it seems like the possibilities really are endless,...
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Devil’s Advocate: It should be illegal for employers to ask for personal...
Photo Illustration by Robert Huskey / Daily Titan As of Jan. 1, 2013, new legislation will go into place that will prevent employers and colleges from requesting social media and email passwords from...
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#this: Ignorance creates unhappy trendings
The late, great Ronnie James Dio once sang, “If you listen to fools, the mob rules.” One can only glean what the metal god truly meant by those words, but they could easily be applied to an...
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#this: The life behind the profile
Though you are reading this right now, you and I will likely never meet. You might find yourself making some form of assumptions about me—forming some kind of mental picture about what I am really...
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#this: Twitter and its pack of painful parodies
Perhaps it is my mind’s defense mechanism against melancholy or maybe even a desire to escape current media saturation, but this week I want to talk about something that is not soul-crushing. Indeed...
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#this: The new war. The war on Twitter.
Beyond the morbid fascination with the convoluted David Petraeus affair and the even more troubling obsession with shopping occupying the minds of Americans over the past few days, there have been...
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#this: The fickle friendship of friending: When social media sites bicker
It happens to the best of us; people meet new friends who—though a selfish idea to say aloud—offer them more than their old ones can ever hope to offer. They grow apart from old friends and, before...
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#this: Lockdown at #CSUF: Twitter’s role in crises
The events on campus last night ostensibly forced me to take a closer look at just what I’m trying to accomplish with the crap I write here. Last night, on a night which had nothing particularly...
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#this: For many, a vacation from Facebook is not a vacation from themselves
The reasons by which people cut certain bad habits out of their lives are hundredfold. Cutting out social media is no exception; unsavory reasons why users step away from their online personas pervade...
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#this: Hack it your way on Twitter
Imagine that you’re sitting on your couch watching television one day and a commercial for Burger King comes on. You watch the hilarious antics of Burger King “employees” unfold when, suddenly, the...
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#this: God’s Word: In 140 characters or less
Something I don’t touch upon that often in this column is the topic of religion. It’s not necessarily that I don’t think religion is a topic without important notions to comment on—I mean this...
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