How did Mark Zuckerberg, build grossly popular websites and apps that just make us keep tapping and scrolling? The simple answer is through algorithms. People like Zuckerberg and Systrom used a system of instructions to create the fundamentals of their sites. However, that is only how they built the structure of the site, not popularity.  The beginnings of Google is a good example both of the use...

Everyone has their highs and their lows throughout their life. At our lows the connections we have and make with others can help us get through hard times. Author and social media strategist, Anne-Sophie Reinhardt was struggling through an undiagnosed eating disorder years ago. At a time when she felt like giving up, she stumbled upon a podcast through social media. She quickly made new friends online,...

Obsessively refreshing their Twitter feeds, Americans scanned their screens for more than four days after the presidential election. Following the announcement of former Vice President Joe Biden’s projected win on Nov. 7, President Donald Trump launched tweets to his 88.5 million followers declaring he won the presidency and the Democratic party was attempting to “steal the vote”. Trump’s...

  Even though students have spent much of this past year bored at home, it isn’t difficult  for us to feel a little homesick. Whether it’s watching decade-old Disney movies, snacking away on our favorite foods from our childhood, or even simply poring over hundreds of baby photos, it’s easy to feel nostalgic about our childhoods and the years of our lives that have gone by in the blink...

The song “The House that Built Me” by Miranda Lambert is a popular country song that causes the listener to reminisce on tender memories of  their childhood. In this song, she remembers the places, people and things that were around her as she grew up. She takes the listener on their own walk down memory lane as so many things of childhood are universal to us all. Just like Lambert is longing...

Road work ahead. Say that phrase to anyone over the age of 25, and they may correlate it with the orange, diamond shaped sign that bears those exact words.  However, say those three words to anyone younger, and like clock-work, they’ll finish the vine, one any given high schooler likely already knows. And with that single engrained memory, comes the flashback of an entire era. Nostalgia is...