Social Media Austin S.

Not the Durantula you were thinking of. Anyone who is from SLC or has been to that place during the general conferences of the church can see that there are groups of people who are lurkin' for church members to make a mistake which they can put on a sign and hopefully spell correctly. So I am clearly full of bias on the subject, and low on sleep so my rant to follow will hopefully not be personal. Everything is personal. Buckle up, I guess. This is not a stimulating blog prompt. There are so many things which would be interesting to discuss, but this is, I hope connected to some topic of coursework other than the fact that it was proliferated by social media. Of course it is wrong to try to profit from people who are explicitly part of a faith which represents itself as lay. Possibly people were happy to pay that amount for swag repping their pop-culture connections, and maybe these people were providing a product which was good for the price. Clearly the people wanted th...

Okay, okay. Let's all be real here and admit that tipping is not as fun as it was when parents paid. This pastor sat down to dinner and did not tip as much as one might expect, and that is potentially okay - after all, we don't know how well she served. But what sent the whole situation to social media was the vindictive nature of the note on the receipt. As soon as it was a battle, people were ready for a fight and nobody gets as excited as an underpaid wait...person (thanks, Justin Trudeau). the pastor's side: Applebee's sucks. Let's face this with some honesty. Applebee's is the Aldi's of sit-down restaurants. There is no way that that was a high-tipping experience if it is anything like my last visit at all. I have spent 15 dollars on a burger and had a burger which was inferior to Carl's Jr come to me. I still tipped, but I haven't been back in years. Applebee's side: why would you go to the restaurant if you didn't plan a tip as pa...

Weiner... There, I said it.  Anthony Wei... we'll say W... was the popular Democratic congressmen who put the D in DM. It is probably best for everyone that he took his talents to the slammer. After warming up by sending nude photos of himself to an underage female (nobody was surprised by his choice of crime since he has the most unfortunate name since "Deez Nuts" the mystery candidate from the 2016 presidential primary elections in North Carolina who took 9% of the popular vote) he then finished the job by denying that he had done anything like that, and said the images were not from him. More media pressure and exposure lead him to come clean about his actions and he was sentenced to spend the better part of two years in the only place dirtier than his Twitter account. For months, the only subject people saw on the nightly news was Weiner-related. The cover-up became the story after the story fizzled, and the lack of honesty fueled the already hot fire. The story wou...