We decided to split the hunt, each of us taking a few questions at a time and sending those answers to the designated recorder. Let us begin by going through some of the bizarre tasks I was assigned to scour the web for:
1. Twitterfall on global warming.
I was not familiar with Twitterfall. Neither was the rest of my group - and when asked if any of them have twitter accounts, all of them said no. Thankfully, I had a twitter account that I don't even use (I only signed up to retweet tweets for a chance to win a beta key) so I ended up using that to finish this task.
2. Comment on a message board, bonus points if you get someone to reply to your comment.
What better place to try this than on Reddit? I logged in, sorted by 'rising' (this means Reddit sorts through posts that are 'rising' in popularity) in hopes to get a quick reply. I saw a post about a user who did very interesting makeup for a Halloween costume. I chose this post for a couple reasons: The original poster is showing off his/her work to thousands of people, this makes it more likely for him/her to respond if you have any questions about his/her said work. It also implies the original poster did the makeup him/herself, and that this wasn't a repost from last year's Halloween. This way, I can ensure a reply. I entered the thread, and posted:
"Spooky. How long did this take you?"
All my predictions were correct, and within minutes she replies, "Thank you! It took close to an hour because I had to start over a few times, finding the right placement for the eye and nose was really tricky and having her real eye staring at me while I was doing it didn't help!"
We weren't sure if we got this one right. This question alone contributes to the idea of the vast power in today's search engines. How a user can do background checks on certain individuals, gather related information about family and/or locations live, and narrowing it down further by age and surnames is truly eerie.
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