Media? We talkin' about media man!

Media is changing... are you coming with?

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First of all, you're welcome. In response to my previous post, I really got on the 'meme education' train and got thinking! The most recent meme star is "How Italians...". Admittedly, i do find these rather hilar tbh. But looking at this objectively, this is perhaps an insight as to how meme's can actually attack culture. The finger purse gesture typically means "what do you really want?" and is obviously recgonised as something stereotypically Italian. So these meme's are surely just attacking a part of Italian culture? Do you think I'm just looking too much into this?😅 or is it meme's destiny, as it spreads more and more, to become a way to attack people rather than the typical character-related meme's...

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DC Police Department on Twitter

“If you don't run a red light, then you can't get a ticket.”

So whilst we have moved into March and February’s meme of the month (http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1233664-meme-of-the-month-calendars) has been left behind by the “How an Italian...” meme, I thought it was interesting to see how the internet phenomenon, which memes are, actually affects our daily life.

Although I love meme’s and particularly the roll safe meme, I think it is slightly concerning that big police departments feel their best way of appealing to youngsters is through a meme. 

Don’t get me wrong though, i think it is absolutely, incredibly ingenius and whoever thought of it should be super proud of themselves.

If this is the future of educating people as to why they shouldn’t run a red light, well, I can’t bloody wait!!!!! It opens a whole new world into education that is truly exciting as to what it’s potential can be!

Are you as excited as i am? I doubt it, but try and convince me!!

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So here it is: confession time. My name is Olly and I’m a rage quitter.

You probably thought rage quitting was solely for the likes of Fifa when somebody scores a last-minute winner against you or, when you just cannot stay alive for more than 3 seconds on COD. But the truth is, with the gaming world having expanded into our regular lives - it’s more common than ever.

The picture above is from an app called Sleep Cycle. It monitors your movement in the night and rates your sleep out of 100. As you can see, this night, I wasn’t falling asleep as quick as I would have liked which resulted in me cancelling the app because I knew it wasn’t going to be a good score.

So you think there are problems with your world? I just had my life torn open in a 2 hour lecture where I was made aware that I now sleep to get a good score on an app and not because it’s one of the most natural things for a human being to possibly do.

Does this change me? Nope. Do I still have the app? Yep.

I’m just about to head to sleep now and the app is open on my phone ready to track my sleep. Why I hear you so intriguingly ask? It’s simple, competitiveness. I want to be the best.

And is there a better title in the world than being able to call yourself the best sleeper? I didn’t think so either.

Night 😇😴🥇🎮

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Using Snapchat to talk to somebody using the chat got me more confused than Chris Rock here… The hardest thing is remembering what you said to them!! The question is: do Snapchat purposefully make the chat like this so you use the app for how it was originally created? Sending photo's and videos?

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Any plans this evening? I'd watch this. There's no secret language. For sure, there are several meanings for some - but they are pretty self explanatory because they don't replace text, they typically support what has already been said. For example, a thumbs up doesn't mean anything more than a thumbs up suggests - it's all good👍🏼 I feel the view on the emoji world is distorted. As far as I'm aware, messages aren't sent as just emojis. The only time might be when it's the last message in the conversation or something is too funny😂😂😂😂😂. For example, maybe you sent a heart to the parents because they've sent you some money to help for those language and new media textbooks. Actually, it's for your job on the side💊 Truth is, in the emoji world, we keep it real💯 There aren't any secrets🤐 Pretty much every emoji echoes the words👯‍♂️ Ultimately, our leader keeps us in check so we don't start using any emojis for reasons that aren't fire🔥🦍 #ripharambe 🤙🏼

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The people I follow on Twitter and my friends on Facebook share similar opinions to me, that’s why we’re friends. Because of this, my news palate is quite reduced. Today, I realised the list of nations released by Trump which bans people from those countries entering the US was something Obama’s administration came up with.

I had to sit in an American politics module where a scholar had to bring this to my attention otherwise, like so many others, I’d continue to believe everything Trump does is bad! By all means I don’t agree with it, but he’s doing what every contemporary President has done! I love Obama but he deported more people than anybody?! 

Don’t wait for news to be given to you or just read the recommendations, indulge yourself in both sides of the story

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It’s clear some ways are more effective when it comes to breaking up with somebody... i’d always choose face to face, wbu?

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You want me to speak to you? Which one you saying?

Snap me? Facetime? DM me? Call me? Maybe even “want to go for a coffee?”

Truth is, each one sends its own message now without you saying anything more. And they are just a few. The list is endless and each way is different too. Am I sending you a snapchat of my face, my lounge or a video? Each one is a different message and the messages are individual too.

Think about what each one means to you…

#deep #edgeythoughts #moreedgesthanyouthought #media #2edgesforthepriceof1 #januarydeals