Too Many Snoops and Too Many Naked Pictures

I personally am not a fan of Snoop Dogg or Kim Kardashian because they both remind me that there are celebrities who are desperately trying to do anything to keep up their fame statuses. Snoop Dogg or less famously known as Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr., is an overaged, wannabe still "rad" rapper who temporarily changed his name to "Snoop Lion" then to "Snoopzilla" for merely hoping to rebrand himself as a chance to a new generational love.

 I love how Kaydee Nance mentions in her blog on being "Always On" about makeup tutorials and how they, and many other non-unique content floods our eyes. She says, "There is a misfiring in both the connections and the assumptions that Instagram makes because the content is just not meeting my expectations in what is should be to be entertaining and worth connecting with." All while I internally thank Kaydee for the accurate depiction of my sour attitude towards Instagram and many other social media accounts that I unfortunately have, I see something worth a #SMH. While I'm trying to quickly scroll through my Instagram feed to ignore the obsessive, irrelevant posts by "The" Snoop, I see this catastrophe.

A photo posted by snoopdogg (@snoopdogg) on Sep 18, 2016 at 10:32am PDT

Thanks, Dogg. Never have I ever before wanted more than to see you on makeup reference memes.

To distract myself from the treacherous "Snoopzilla" as he terrorizes the Instagrams of the not-so-innocent civilians bragging on themselves, I am reminded of the pictures that Kim Kardashian posts. While many to most of these pictures need to be shielded from small children's eyes, Kim K's butt crack or boobage pictures where the things are going to pop at any given movement is nearly impossible to miss. Seemingly completely egotistic, Kim doesn't seem to hesitate to post 99% naked pictures of herself and only herself for a friend's birthday. It is as if Kim is saying, "Happy birthday, not-at-all-important person! As my gift to you, I will share this picture of a string wrapped around my body and your shadow in the background!"

Oh wait, she did.

Happy Birthday @steph_shep I love this pic of us!

A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Sep 15, 2016 at 11:42am PDT

I am not sure if there is some sexual desire for all of the world to follow her, or that the "normal" humans just have nothing better to do than stalk celebrities' Instagrams. As Katie Gatto so perfectly explains in her blog 24 Hours, "If there wasn’t this need to create and keep relationships with people, we wouldn’t care so much as to what goes on in their lives. Without the curiosity in other people’s live no one would feel the need to stay connected, or worry about being “always on”." We are simply trying to make ourselves seem more interesting by "who we know", or "who we follow".

Much to my surprise, or lack of update on current pop-culture, I just found out that there is a second oddly named heir of the Kardashian-West family dynasty. All I have to say is I am so sorry to poor little North West and Saint West. Your parents have hated you since before the days in the womb.

My Dad and Susan Boyle are Birthday Twins

Of all the blogs that I have read, they have left me really thinking about the ownership of Wikipedia's community created information. Seriously, who would want to claim to own public information on Susan Boyle or official knowledge and backup proof on dying of laughter, written in a highly researched manner. Much like the reading about the use (or lack of use) of cognitive surplus, I think that as people of relatively intelligent social media skills, we all have the ability to claim ownership to the content of Wikipedia, only if we have made a sizable contribution to it. I wouldn't claim to have taken part in it because I haven't even thought about ever editing a page. But how are we supposed to know if the people who are in charge of the page are accepting the correct information to have on the Wikipedia page? I'm making myself more curious on that matter now. How would we know if they are just re paraphrasing what so many other Google-searched sites are saying about a certain topic?

All three of my classmates mentioned the credibility of a Wikipedia post in the eyes of a school system. These can easily be argued, but we as society (or the teachers who say Wikipedia isn't allowed) are not thinking logically in the sense that the information presented to us has to come from somewhere. Most of this information is listed in the footnotes as references anyway!

I was curious about how the legitimacy of Wikipedia information was and of the once rising star, Susan Boyle. As just, I simply popped in a Wikipedia search and was presented with nearly every fact that I care to know, or for the most part, overly care as well. Going through ridiculous information on this homebody who had her 20 minutes of minimal fame, I recalled all the times when I had watched her on Youtube and Facebook. I confidently announce that my dad and I both enjoyed listening to her debut album, "I Dreamed A Dream" over and over again. With so many dreams of dreams, I was too distracted to realize that Susan Boyle is still going strong and has 6 albums, if not most all of which are relatively inconspicuous to the public. 

Nonetheless, I have no doubt that her Wikipedia page was bursting at the clicks with self-proclaimed knowledge of the woman. The most important piece of information Wikipedia provided me with was Susan's birthday. Without it, I would have never created the harebrained assumption that my dad and Susan are possibly long, lost fraternal twins separated at birth. For all we know, accents are just a ploy and Wikipedia is secretly trying to take over the world, one talented Brit at a time.

Works Cited

Gatto, Katie. "What's Mine Is Yours." K., 2 Sept. 2016, annkgatto.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/whats-mine-is-yours/. Accessed 12 Sept. 2016.

Hargers, Dantrel. "Let's talk about Wikipedia." Daaaaamn Danny, 9 Sept. 2016, damndanny.blogspot.com/. Accessed 12 Sept. 2016.

"Susan Boyle." Wikipedia. Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Boyle. Accessed 12 Sept. 2016.

"Susan Boyle - Britains Got Talent 2009 Episode 1 - Saturday 11th April." YouTube, uploaded by UKAdvertChannel, 11 Apr. 2009, www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk. Accessed 12 Sept. 2016.

Tingle, Jake. "WikiFeedia." Social Media and Society, 2 Sept. 2016, scartingle.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/wikifeedia/. Accessed 12 Sept. 2016.

My Instagram Post is a Gift to You

Surprise! My Instagram post for your birthday is actually the one and only birthday present that you will receive from me- since I am actually advertising the, most likely, insignificant friendship of someone that I will struggle to remember the name of in 20 years- but really the self-proclamation that I am desiring attention through the click of a digital heart.

A photo posted by @happy_birthday_card on Dec 6, 2016 at 8:44am PST

It is easy for us to assume that people who do not have certain social media accounts are misers who are afraid to share their gifts to the world, but also do not want to accept ours in forms of followers from a shout out about their recent passing of a kidney stone. 

We, the only self-aware Millennials, are seen as egoists by our uncultured Baby Boomer parents who far to well know how to take poorly angled selfies. Easily arguable, we can simply say that we are enlightening the world with our epiphany on life. 

Do I sound a little pessimistic towards my use of gifts to acquaintances? As unfortunate as it sounds, I plea guilty to nearly all the instances mentioned previously (slight exaggeration about the kidney stones). It is as similar as giving a Christmas present to our favorite pet. We cannot help but hope they will receive happiness and return everlasting love. This is something that is rarely thought prior to gifting the present as a self-interested aspect of ego. We have been born into generations who somehow receive a form of gift and by result provide feedback through verbal communication, or by a physical monetary matter. It just turns out that today we use our social media platforms as our form of gift-giving.

We use our social media sites as a secret Utopian society where we are inferior to the economic status of reality by creating the person we wish to be. When I post something on any of my social media accounts, I will either gain followers from my wittiness, or certain people will recognize something I think is significant. If someone skims over our clever captioned picture without acknowledgment, our self-confidence is lost and we strive to top it with the next, leaving a lacked inferiority complex. 

We all use our goals of blogs and posts as a plea for retaliation from the readers in some varying form of recognition. It creates a "give and take" persona that is much more easily accepted through a virtual world rather than reality. 

My only hope through social media is to say that I once sat behind that one guy in my Spanish class who re-tweeted the girl who got a reply from the once famous child star turned drug addict's tweet about getting the newest Starbucks drink.