Olivia's Opinions

A knife so sharp it easily pierces the glowing orange skin and enters the fleshy guts of the perfectly shaped orb. A scent, that so perfectly sums up the entire season, penetrates your nose. If anyone says that they don't love carving pumpkins, they're lying. Carving pumpkins is easily the best part of fall, or at least October. Going to a pumpkin patch and picking out the perfectly shaped, orange blobs of happiness is the highlight of my year. Maybe its just me, but I believe that how a person carves a pumpkin describes their entire personality. There are the people that get really intricate with their carvings, the people that carve cutesy designs or characters, and then there are the people that go 100% halloween. I'm the person that goes with all three. This year, I made a strawberry as my "intricate yet cutesy" pumpkin. My "character" pumpkins were Bob and Larry from Veggie Tales (because they're adorable and my pumpkins matched them perfectl...

I don't plan on making this post long because I don't really have all too much to say about YouTube. First of all, I never really considered YouTube as a form of social media. It was always just, the website with the funny animal videos to me, but thinking more about it, I guess that is social media and a lot of people do use YouTube as such. It is connected to other forms of social media which made me think of it as more of a tool of those platforms instead of a social media platform of its own. The Social Media Marketing Workbook we are reading in class says that "YouTube can provide a two-for-one punch to your social media marketing," which is absolutely true. I never thought about Youtube being a marketing tool (I guess I never really thought of YouTube being anything other than a bunch of random videos) but there are a lot of different company channels and organization videos on it. Like Buzzfeed and GoPro and Nintendo all use YouTube as a form of direct communic...