Week 3: Wireless Communication
A guy ran his Car into a Chick-Fil-A on Jefferson today (5/10/14). I was in that area and I was wondering why there were a bunch of fire trucks surrounding the Chick-Fil-A. But we went about our business, went to the patrick henry mall, got… Chick-Fil-A, went to the car in the pouring rain and witnessed a car smash into another 50 feet away and when pulling out. Anyway… Wireless Communication and the Viral Internet.
The question of how to get a video to go viral is hard to answer. First of what does it mean to go viral? "Going Viral," comes from "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkin, in which he outlines the meme as it is understood today. In "The Selfish Gene", Dawkin says that memes are "cultural constructs that act like viruses, moving from one person to the next, replicating itself in a means to expand the culture from which is was created." So, in other words, if something goes viral, it has reach meme statues, and is now acting like a cultural virus. How does this "virus" spread? Usually someone famous. But in general one person shares the item whether it be a video (Double Rainbow), song (Pink Fluffy Unicorns), or story (A Guy Crashed into the Chick-Fil-A on Jefferson). If someone did not tweet that someone crashed into the place, I would never had known what had happened. Also if no one had phoned 911, the amber-lamps would not have come to the car crash within 3 minutes of the event.
Using technology to share these incidents benefits the community. These events won't go viral, but they are examples of how something goes viral. One person shares with another, that person shares it with others, those people share it with more and those people share it with even more people… and so on. Soon there is a community that shares this inside joke or something in common. There are plenty of these communities out there in the world and on the web. The shared goals and interests of these people can create close-knit friends and can lead to amazing things. An example: http://thenicestplaceontheinter.net/. The internet is a place that can bring people together.
Every second on the internet: http://onesecond.designly.com/
An Infographic: http://digitalbuzz.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/A-Day-In-The-Internet.jp
I like how you make your posts interesting in the begining to draw the reader in and I also like how you make your writing like a conversation.
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