Angelo Simone
4/5/14
Blog 3
Should Reddit be kept
as a small potato?
Reddit is a social networking
website that allows viewers to share ideas, vote on issues, engage in
conversations, and displays what is most currently trending on the web. Numerous
famous people including President Obama and Bill Gates have used Reddit. Anyone
with an internet connection can join and participate in Reddit. Even though
Reddit is considered small potatoes when compared to sites like Facebook or
Twitter, it is culturally significant and should be kept on the internet.
The main reason Reddit should be kept
is that many people use it. In February 2013 Reddit had 55,024,811
visitors from more than 175 different countries. On March 23, 2013, Reddit had
4,206 active communities consisting of more than 2,094,953 redditors casting
over 16,121,282 votes. http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/what-reddit-and-why-should-you-care.
The numbers alone prove that Reddit is more than just an average viewed
website.
Reddit
allows people to connect directly to authority figures such as politicians and
media stars. President
Obama’s August 2012 AMA, or “Ask Me Anything” was the biggest event on Reddit
so far. http://techland.time.com/2013/10/01/the-six-most-important-moments-in-reddit-history/
Users would submit questions directly to Obama in order to get a reply. The
event had so many users trying to participate in the discussion that the server
crashed.
The last most important aspect of
Reddit is its ability to allow viewers to see what is most trending on the web.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit
Instead of trying to sift through newspapers and watching the news headlines,
Reddit simply displays what are the most popular viewed subjects at that time.
This is extremely helpful in reducing time while researching a particular
topic.
Works Cited
ReplyDeleteI'm pro Reddit as well. I agree with what you pointed out these were points I didn't discuss in my own post. Another nice thing about Reddit is that there is no advertising or Ads on the site. Sponsored links are allowed and can be bought but users tend to stay away from them. Instead what you do find is a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) where you mentioned authority figured doing Q & A's but companies do this as well, like Symantec's Backup Exec Product Management and engineering virtualization specialists did in January 2013 (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/179lw2/symantec_backup_exec_product_management_team/). They talked to its clients, can't say this is something you would find on the other big name site, like Facebook, yes I know they have a comment button but how many of use really receive a response back? This company was interested in users thoughts and came to Reddit in order to get them.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/what-reddit-and-why-should-you-care
Another nice point about the site is that they will actually "shadow block" your account if your seen to be advertising and/or up voting your own information. This is really nice because it goes back to the whole concept of the site being for the people not for the companies. This tie’s into your point about what is trending, you know that on this site it really is what people are talking about not the owner/author of that up voted post making it trendy. http://socialmediatoday.com/index.php?q=mschmoldt/1684261/3-tips-how-to-use-reddit