Wikipedia

If you think about it, we really access the internet more times than we might care to count. And in the case of college kids and adults alike it's mainly to access quick information that we might need to resolve a conflict that we might be having with a friend or maybe to type up a last minute essay like Danny had said. And really why do we rely on the internet so much? Why do we rely on Wikipedia so much? How do we know that we should even trust these sites?
We trust them when we need a general idea of how something works, a quick explanation, or instant information on odd things  that we may not be confident enough asking in class or in a casual conversation. We trust Wikipedia because it never has been totally wrong. The thing here is that the site is run by so many different folks who care very deeply about the subjects that they are publishing and releasing to the public that they wouldn't dare allow any false information taint that admiration they have for it. In addition to that aren't you also gifting  to yourself when you release this info and have it read by millions of people in seconds?
My point here is that although Wikipedia is a resource designed for quick information, it is still more than reliable enough thanks to egos to allow us to use this information at will and use it efficiently.

Works Cited

http://damndanny.blogspot.com/

Gifting Post

My last post on Instagram has received 96 likes. Basically this is a post of my brother and I after we played a game against Southwestern University which we won. And I happened to get as many likes as I did because of how I emphasized the relationship I have with my brother along with the fact that we are also college teammates. So in theory, I hustled likes from my followers by playing to their heartstrings.

 This makes me feel accomplished and has filled me with a sense of importance that we all crave when we carefully select a caption that we think will tug at our follower's heartstrings or when we selectively choose a filter that we feel will best compliment our features, smiles, or our best angles. This is a gift in itself to me. It is also a gift to whomever I tag in the post with me. Once this person I have tagged in this photo starts getting attention from my followers who are requesting to follow him he will feel obligated to start posting with me to somewhat return the favor in hopes of maintaining this relationship that results in exchange of attention and followers. This is in theory how we validate our existence or appearance in mainstream media ; by the number of people who acknowledge our existence.


Gifting is a form of bartering that we use to have our presences felt and without a doubt this feeds our egos that so powerfully control our decisions as to why we do things or determine how much effort we put into things like relationships with people that have a platform that can ascend us into another level of the spotlight in our mainstream social media communities.