My friend has a strict routine when he gets on the computer. Email, Facebook, Perez, Digg, AbsolutePunk (BARF), PitchforkMedia (BARF!) and Reddit, Repeat if necessary. It’s a vicious cycle which he spends hours on daily… I guess it doesn’t really stop me from being friends with him, but he did ask me not to use his name because he didn’t want people to think he is “a pompous asshole.” Well, maybe too late? When I decided to check out one of these sites in his routine, I went to Reddit.com and found that it’s just a site that posts entries for “what’s new and hot online,” so you could find anything from true and disturbing stories to funny and absurd stories. I clicked around for a few minutes, and the posts that I read were mostly just true stories that I wouldn’t have gotten anywhere else in the news because they seemed so ridiculous. Many had credible sources, though, but some of them I’m still doubting a little bit.
This is popular culture because it addresses what is popular/what stories are popular online at that given point in time. Viewers vote on what they think is popular or not and they are ranked from there, with the most popular stories displayed first. You get the latest ranking up to the minute that they are posted, so it’s pretty interesting to read some of the top stories and see what is going on.
www.Reddit.com
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