A Little More Lurking

This week I continued to lurk about LGBT on Twitter and Facebook. I went back on the sites and searched the hashtag LGBT again. I realized that I can find more up to date content on Twitter since people tweet more often than people make posts on Facebook. I also noticed that some of the content overlap because some people/organizations have both media sites and share the same content on both of them. I enjoy looking through Twitter more because more content comes up on the page. Last week I made a comment about accounts being verified. What I meant by that was, the verified accounts of public figures/organizations. On the Twitter feed, it is really easy to see who made the post. I like looking at the verified public figure/organization accounts to see who is involved in some type of cause to the LGBT community. I came across a few people/organizations I recognized. Aja King with Matt McGorry, actors in the ABC shot How to Get Away with Murder, the NBA, Vice President Biden and the basketball team the Golden State Warriors.

Our professor Michelle asked about the SpiritDay hashtag last week in my images I shared. It was a second hashtag Kim Kardashian shared on her tweet along with the LGBT hashtag. I honestly didn’t notice it until i went back to check it out. I decided to click on it to see what it was about and the tweets above came up. It turns out, spirit day is a day where people wear purple in a stand to end bullying and support the LGBT youth. “Observed annually since 2010, individuals, schools, organizations, corporations, and public figures wear purple, which symbolizes ‘spirit’ on the rainbow flag” (GLAAD, 2015). These public figures above are just a few of those in support of the cause and it’s really cool to see how supportive they are even if its something as simple as wearing the color purple.