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!