social media
Social media has completely changed the way we communicate and the way we spend our time. It's easy to log into Facebook to quickly check your messages and then look up hours later to find you've spent your entire day on there. Of course companies soon began to realize this and knew that they needed an online presence in order to reach this new demographic. These companies now use social media to advertise deals, promote new products, and communicate with customers. That's where the fun begins. Some of the most hilarious pranks have come from guys contacting corporations with outrageous inquiries or complaints and, in turn, getting a sincere response from them. Others have simply taken ...
Social media has given celebrities a way to interact with fans on a personal level like never before. Fortunately for us, this kind of access for celebrities isn’t always a good thing. Some individuals have not handled themselves with grace, considering they have access to millions of fans at the push of a button. Here are some of our favorite idiotic moves by celebs on the good old Internet. Let’s start with Ashton Kutcher, who sent off this tweet about the firing of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno. This was all without being aware of the entire Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal that was the ...
As the digital world becomes more and more important, social media is a vital way to get your message out. Fortunately for us, many companies are hilariously bad at it. This year saw an epic number of social media fails, as ad agencies, marketing firms and clueless interns collaborated to make their employers look terrible. In this list, we’ll share ten of the absolute worst social media fails of 2012 #McDStories Promoted topics on Twitter are always a recipe for disaster. It makes sense in theory: Get people talking about your brand and you’ll plant a seed in their brains. But when McDonald's paid to have ...
On its way to one billion users, Facebook, headed by Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year Mark Zuckerberg, is indeed one of the biggest phenomenons to follow the birth of the Internet, connecting people in every conceivable way and continuously growing in new directions. But with every new road paved, there's bound to be a few speed bumps, especially if you're the type who wants the car to pull over and let you out. Here are 10 ways to know if Facebook is ruining your life, or the lives of those around you. No. 10 - Despite having a pool of nearly a billion Facebook users to choose from, a random girl with a way-too-hot-to-be-real profile picture seems to be the only one who finds you ...
by Jenn Hoffman Social media has changed the way we date. It helps us eliminate possible partners before we even meet them in person, because we learn so much about their general attitudes towards life through their status updates. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't. But there are many common social-media red flags that might seem subtle, but should make you run, not walk, away from a potential IRL date. ...
