Photos and other Reddit info! :)

Hi everyone!

I just realized that I haven't posted too many pictures about what reddit look like, the layout can sometimes cause confusion. I found this really cool image of the homepage of reddit with little post about what each feature is. This photo comes from udemy, a site that offers online courses. The photo comes from their blog where they promote reddit as a learning tool, VERY COOL!

Also: for my last blog post my source for all my info was Wikipedia and Reddit itself :)

Keep it classy

History of Reddit!

Hi everyone!

Alright so last post I explained to you guys why I chose to create a blog about reddit. But today I though I would share history about the site as well as some other really cool info.

So to get started reddit was created in 2005 by two graduates of the University of Virginia and was created in Medford, Massachusetts. The original founders of reddit were Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian however many people joined their team after that! On October 31st, 2006 Condè Nast Publications acquired reddit and moved the team to San Francisco. In July 2010 reddit had a large traffic growth and after that the creators created an option called Reddit Gold, a membership where you paid for more access to different items.

And on September 6th, 2011 reddit became operationally independent of Condè Nast Publications.

Well there you go kids! Now go enjoy reddit :)

My first blog post!

Hi everyone,

My name is Kyle Kvamme and I am a sophomore at Hamline University! As of right now I am majoring in Communication Studies and minoring in Political Science but I can assure you that will most likely change pretty quickly. I have created this blog for my Mass Communication course. I am very excited to begin this blogging experience and hopefully can show you guys some cool new information that you didn't know before.

That brings me to the topic of my blog: reddit. For those of you who aren't familiar with reddit I'll attempt to explain it to you however, I am relatively new to the world of reddit myself, so I apologize if my explanation is lacking. At the end of my blogging experience I will redefine reddit once we have all become "reddit experts". Reddit is a social networking site where users can summit content and other users vote on that content which moves it up or down on the site's page. So to better explain that when members of reddit post content the rest of the viewers can vote that content as important in which they would hit the up button for it to move up on the site's page. If a user doesn't like a piece of content they can vote it down which bring it down on the site's page, signifying that it is less important.

I said earlier I was new to the world of reddit. I first heard of reddit last year when I first began my studies at Hamline University. I had friends that were avid reddit users, they visited the site multiple times a day. I wanted to see what reddit was like and at first I was very confused by it. There seemed to be so many "inside jokes" and articles on the site I wasn't interested it so I stopped using it. However I then began to hear about how reddit was in the news for trying to find the Boston bombers during the Boston Marathon bombings and I was intrigued. Even though users of reddit ended up believing a young man committed the bombings who was innocent I saw the beginning of what could be the next era in journalism, "cell phone journalists". Journalism that is created by ordinary citizens for the common goal of human good. Now the community of reddit fascinates me and I can't wait to find out more about this community and share it with all of you!