Walk the Walk

I wanted to check out one more social media site for my exploration. tumblr is a social media site that lets users be creative without the pressure of advertising.  I can totally see why this is the social media that my son (a video game design major/graphic art minor) would choose for the one social media he is going to use.  You can blog on it (like blogspot), you can post thoughts (like Twitter), you can post pictures and art (like Instagram) and you can post videos (like Tik Tok and You Tube).   I checked out what was trending on tumblr and while all very interesting, the format for me was overwhelming.   I also read this article  and was really impressed with the concept of tumblr and how has been maintained.   I like to think through  this journey, I became a little more savvy about social media.  I will talk with you all about this tomorrow (Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk). But here's a preview- It is not just language that catches on, it is also im

I started working on my presentation.  Hmmmm, how should I begin, I pondered aloud.   "Oh, you should say 'Hi, Welcome to Chili's!," Olivia advised. I looked this up. What. In. The. World.   And it got millions of hits and people imitated it.  And this guy was FAMOUS before this. Speaking of famous guys and famous memes.  Here's the   origin behind the one above. Happy Mother's Day pic.twitter.com/sIwW3fhZXs — All Def (@AllDef) May 13, 2018

I keep hearing about Tik Tok and how it's the newer, better Vine.  So, I check it out.  Half an hour later, here's what I learned. 1. It is quite entertaining. 2. I am not that creative.  The first person to create an idea is wicked clever.  And I so admire all the peeps who take their own spin on it.  Super fun. And then I did about 15 more minutes of "research" and here's the thing-if I wasn't a grown person, I would spend so much time with this. And so that I don't because I really need to read your blogs, I'll end with Tik Tok is pretty cool.

Here is the article from the web.  My comments are in red.  The highlighted ones were not in the newspaper article.  I think it is kind of interesting which ones they omitted. What is a VSCO girl? OK, boomer. A parents' dictionary to teen slang words, sksksksksk Rasha Ali David Oliver Amy Haneline USA TODAY If you clicked on this story, it's probably because you have no idea what your kids are saying. Hi! Welcome to the club. Thanks to the internet – mostly  TikTok , let's be real – new slang words and phrases are popping up all the time, making it hard to have a conversation with your offspring.  A sample conversation with a teen : "Oh, that VSCO girl? She's definitely not in my squad. But I stan her swagger even though those scrunchies are trash. Hundo P. OK, boomer?" Translation : A trendy girl is not in your child's group of friends, but she appreciates her confidence even though her big ponytail holders are terrible. She 100% t

I didn't post Friday because I was watching TV with my daughter.  We were watching our favorite show-RuPaul's Drag Race. An interesting trend right now is that phrases from drag culture (which are also from African American culture-particularly women) are popping up on Twitter and are now mainstream.  In fact, I have heard students saying these phrases up and down the halls and I have to giggle to myself because I doubt many of them know what they are saying.  So here are few favorites and what they mean (just so you know). YAS! - This word was created as an exclamation to yell at drag queens while they were performing as a sign of support and encouragement. Spill the T/Tea-S lang for the word truth or gossip. Used in a sentence: "Girl, I'm about to spill the tea on everything that happened last night." Gagging-  Used when something is so fierce, you can’t help but want to gag from the overload of extreme fierceosity. Sickening- Amazing, in

...that the average person swallows 8 spiders while they are sleeping? Totally gross. Did you also know that that is an urban myth? According to snopes.com  there is no way that spiders would get near us when we are sleeping with our mouths open.  That is because if our mouths are open, we are snoring and if we are snoring, we are causing a vibration that would cause the spiders not to come near us. Did you also know that this urban myth, in 2013, spawned a meme on Tumblr that not only is my daughter's ABSOLUTE FAVORITE but also taught an entire generation about statistics? “average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted” Spiders Georg was huge on Tumblr (spawning 90,000 posts) and even got his own Facebook page. In our house, any time someone gives a statistic, Spid

The discussion began with changing the cat on Everett's blog.  Here's the Gif I used :) But do I call it a Gif (with a hard G like Gift) or a Gif (with a soft J like Jiff)? According to Newsweek (article link ) ,  it should be the hard G, like Gift.   Reasons: *The  "G" in GIF stands for Graphic , which is pronounced with a hard G. It's Graphic Interchange Format. *"Gift" is GIF's closest neighbor.   *A computer would pronounce the acronym with a hard "G." *Our brains logically just want to pronounce it with a hard G.  But the creator feels otherwise.  In his acceptance of the Webby Lifetime achievement award ( Not going to lie-kind of cool to think about the real people who created the things that we use everyday and that there are awards for this stuff!) . He says (Jiff) I think I will probably still say it with the hard G because it makes sense to my brain.  

I speak with my hands.  I am a very physical speaker both with my face and my gestures.  The other day in one of my freshman classes, I made a statement to a student and clapped my hands after every word.  I wanted to emphasize what I was saying.  This was met with much more laughter than I expected. Coincidentally, there was a Tweet I saw a few days later that had the handclap emoji between each word.  Ahhh..... The hand clap emoji when used in succession is a round of applause Why thank you! Between each word emphasizes your point Look at me being all relevant without meaning to. Where did this come from? According to the website Bustle, and several others I looked at, it comes from the African American culture.  It  is called "The Black Girl Clap" used often when a woman is explaining something (generally to a man). But online, according to Slate.com, it's become aggressive.  When you do this you are basically saying-you are an id

Have you seen this shirt lately. . . . . .and wondered what was up?  Because the sentiment is cool and I support it, I'm just skeptical if it means what I think it means or if it's something else. First hit on Google- Danny Duncan's web store. Second-Killer merch's web store. Third-scandal about the shirt. Here's the skinny-8th grader in Arkansas was asked to change her shirt " because the 'message on her shirt' opens up too many doors for conversations" about sexual activity -- or lack thereof."  This kiddo got the shirt from a Christian festival and it had more writing on the back- " I'm loving my Husband and I haven't even Married Him."  I'm thinking this is not the same shirt that we are seeing here  but it definitely looked similar. Here's the article . Well, not really helpful.  Next search-Virginity Rocks T-shirt meaning. Answers: Know your meme says: About Virginity Rocks  is a  catchphrase  ty

I love Instagram. When Loryl told me that she would be creating an fake Instagram account (a Finsta) for her goldfish, I immediately thought that she was going to go a little risque for with it.  My "experience" with Finstas was from what Mrs. McMaster's daughter told me-it was where you created an alternate, fake you and posted goofy things you would never actually do.  You even gave it a bad name.  Needless to say, Loryl was shocked that this is where I thought she was going and I needed to get more information. According to Urban dictionary: Finsta A  spam  Instagram  account  where people post what they are too afraid to post  on the real  account Did you see  Chris's   finsta ? It is  so funny . by  rantmonster2319  June 16, 2016 And from dictionary.com/slang What does  finsta  mean? A  finsta  is a secondary, usually private, Instagram account where users are more lax in deciding what they post. It’s a private space that might be m

I also love Twitter.   One of the teachers that I follow on Twitter is Mr. Victor. Mr. Victor likes to Tweet with the hashtag EAT Jimmy Victor @jimmyvic3 · Oct 9 less than 40 days until tryouts!!! B-ball season is right around the corner, I can’t wait! Get ready for some Jags basketball this winter. Meeting next Tuesday in LGI to discuss workouts and conditioning leading up to tryouts #GoJags #EAT I tried several different Google searches and a call to Liv, before we decided to look up "EAT acronym". We knew from our searches on Twitter that it was related to sports. Effort Attitude Toughness These are things we can all control. As an athlete, and a human, the EAT philosophy leads to success. "Every single successful person I know does everything with great effort, a positive attitude, and mental & physical toughness." Jeff Hamhauser-youth football coach http://www.jeffehemhau