by Kassandra Strout | Aug 10, 2015 | Social Media
You know how people will ask you a really good question that you have to stop and think about? That happened to me last week, when one of our clients asked “How do businesses make money on Instagram?” In that moment, I realized I didn’t have a good...
by Kassandra Strout | Jul 27, 2015 | Social Media
Earlier this spring, Instagram decided that it’s users really needed the ability to hashtag their emojis, meaning you can now search for any emoji and see what others have posted (if they use the hashtag, of course). This wasn’t a life-changing moment for...
by Kassandra Strout | Jul 14, 2015 | Social Media
I love psychology and contemplating what makes people tick. So, when I saw this article that examines why we like, comment, or share things on social media, I had to do some reading (because this is the sort of thing that makes me tick). The article made some...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jun 21, 2015 | Social Media
At first, I think some of us were worried the internet was going to give us all unrealistic body expectations. Photoshopping, #thinspiration, and just the amount of images there are have done some of that. Listening to a WNYC program about what the internet/social...
by Kassandra Strout | Jun 12, 2015 | Social Media
Note: this post is purely for fun, and all social observations are based on a very small sample of the population. Actually, just 2 people. A couple months ago, I was visiting my family in the midcoast Maine area and went out to lunch with my cousin JD and one of his...
by Kassandra Strout | Jun 4, 2015 | Social Media, Tech
Since around 2012, there have been an increasing amount of studies/articles going by about social media’s harmful impact on our psychological/emotional health. Even technology in general gets a bad rap for causing these and physical ailments. Most of the...