Jennifer Newell - Latest Comments

Re: Stealing Hashtags is a Dick Move

Amit Kumar Singh — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 01:20:28 -0000

Yes, Facebook is planning to attract all the charm from Twitter to it's own corner, We as per the recent report :- Facebook thought they will introduce the hashtag
and cash in on its popularity, they were sincerely mistaken. The problem with
the hashtag on facebook is that – nobody on facebook knows how to use it. The original concept behind the hashtag was to enable
the users to discover stories of their interests. For example on Twitter, a
hashtag that reads #EvanWilliams, accumulates every story related to Evan
Williams available on Twitter and lists it in the newest-first order of tweets. Facebook posts suffer from the distraction
factor. Everyone knows that photos are among the top viral content on Facebook
and are used by brands to drive engagement to their pages. But EdgeRank’s study
revealed that using hashtags with a photo also gave no additional exposure to
brands

Re: Startup Weekend

Amit Kumar Singh — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 01:05:47 -0000

"Start-up" word is around
every corner of the world. i would like to share some of the words from Indian
VC on Start-up:- Indians love to talk and
communicate to each other and communication types of mobile apps are becoming
popular” and “if statups are solving real problems, acquiring users is not
going to be a challenge for them”. said Pankaj from 500startup

Re: Stealing Hashtags is a Dick Move

jennyjenjen — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:42:58 -0000

That's rather narrow-minded, in my opinion, to say "any sort of business." And very ignorant of where marketing is taking place nowadays.

Personally, I find content strategy to be where it's at. But marketing has to happen on social media whether you like it or not. Just the fact that you're even citing MySpace leads me to believe that you aren't entirely in-the-know.

Social media: damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Re: Stealing Hashtags is a Dick Move

ModernDayNomad — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:44:05 -0000

if you choose to use twitter for marketing purposes, you should be ready for such unexpected problems. It might be a dick move, with your own words but, it is their dickheadedness and you can do nothing about it.

This is why social media is not an appropriate platform to conduct any sort of business. You are either at the mercy of everyone else at large (example: your case) or at the mercy of one company, likes of Facebook or what used to be MySpace. At the end, someone may get you by the balls and you can do nothing about it.

Re: Stealing Hashtags is a Dick Move

Daman Bahner — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:36:03 -0000

Thank god they're not for sale, domain rush all over again. I completely agree with what you're saying from a standpoint of successful social media etiquette.

Re: Sometimes it pays to just ask

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Re: Sometimes it pays to just ask

Edwin — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:14:53 -0000

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Re: About

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Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

jennyjenjen — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:53:39 -0000

I think it would be ignorant to say that there are no populations 'hating' on Jews. There is a lot of anti-semitism out there. I'd also hope that there is no such hate for Jews, but what's worse - denying it or acknowledging it and asking why? Guess it depends on perspective...

The intent of the campaign is to show how a single person in Sweden would tweet to the world given a stage. And that's just what it is doing.

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

Lana — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 06:27:48 -0000

I have seen none of this supposed "media frenzy" on the subject, except for Colbert making fun of the whole thing (which is hardly insulting and hilarious), and have no idea what you're talking about. Seems like people blowing this whole "lash back" "Americans like to complain" thing way out of proportion.
I do find Sonja's humor to be rather crass and misplaced. Though I understood that she didn't try to offend anyone even before reading this post, it wasn't the right place or time to say anything on the subject. She's representing a country, even if it is just a silly twitter thing. Coming off as ignorant on your own is fine and not a big deal, but making the whole country seem ignorant is not a good idea.
Also, her question is kind of offensive because it implies that there are a lot of people who don't like Jews either in the world or in Sweden. The phrasing of the question "whats the fuzz with jews?" implies that people around her are actively hating on them, which is just weird and I really hope inaccurate.
Also, the intention of the campaign is to make me want to go to Sweden, no? Nothing is a bigger vacation mind set turn off than Hitler, in any context. Guess that fact ironically matches Sonja's actual statement.
Sonja's effort did nothing to make me want to go to Sweden any time soon, possibly even pushed the destination further down my list of places I'd like to go to in this life time.
We had a couple of exchange students from Sweden in my college a few years ago. They were sweet girls and I was pretty good friends with one of them, but now that I think about it, quiet a few times things they said in class would come out sounding mean or argumentative when they didn't seem to be trying to sound that way. Makes me really wonder about the cultural/language barrier even more.
I have to ask, did you find Sonja's video response to Colbert to be funny? Because to me that was just extremely painful to watch. Not just not funny, but rather off putting in a "what in the world..." kind of way.

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

jennyjenjen — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:57:52 -0000

I believe it was George W. Bush who once told then-Senator Biden "I don't do nuance." Most Americans, quite unfortunately, do not "do" nuance. This may lend to your thoughts and be the reason why what you suggest - completely reasonable assertions - is to difficult for a lot of people to comprehend.

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

John Olson — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:41:45 -0000

I'm from North Dakota and I never met a Jew until I moved to Washington.

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

David Bean — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:09:18 -0000

Actually, if you read across the range of what she's tweeted you'd see that she's highly intelligent, in that she thinks in a unusually creative way. 'Ignorance' means nothing more than lack of awareness of some fact; therefore everyone on earth is ignorant in some regard. Now, you might believe that she is ignorant of some things it is not proper to be ignorant about, but really, who are you to judge what is appropriate knowledge for someone who lives in a fairly remote part of Lapland? Were you, for example, an Inuit, you might consider people highly ignorant for not being well versed in the principles of hunting and making clothes from fur, but I hope you wouldn't feel the same about someone from the Arabian Peninsular or New York City, because that would be pretty stupid. In any case, the very purpose of her comments was to convey her ignorance of the subjects she was discussing, in order to counter it. Why on earth should that deserve censure?

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

jennyjenjen — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:09:26 -0000

Thank you for your feedback, but I believe you missed part of my point. I'm not trying to make her sound intelligent; quite far from that in fact, almost the opposite.

While I agree that parenthood should be in the hands of responsible people, I think it's a tough call that you would effectively judge a person for reproducing based on their lack of knowledge about a population of people remote to their own lives. There are people all over the world who are ignorant about other populations; you aren't going to be able to stop that, and judging individuals for that is tricky territory.

In an ideal world, only capable people would reproduce. But like Sonja said, at least she's not doing drugs or prostitution. How people parent their children is really their business, unfortunately at the pain of others in society, and I wish it was easier to solve that problem. I do take comfort in the fact that most Swedes do reproduce responsibly - you may not know Sonja's entire situation, and actually I guarantee that you don't, so I'm not sure you are able to adequately determine whether or not Sonja is fit to parent. But hey - for those who aren't fit - birth control, right? I support Planned Parenthood, that's for sure.

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

Tara — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:33:35 -0000

It was a nice effort Jennifer, but I really don't think you should be defending Sonja. I think her words speak for themselves and your attempt at trying to make her sound intelligent is unfounded. She is exactly who she appears to be ... an ignorant person. The thing that I find shocking, and ultimately sad, is that with her limited experience and intelligence, Sonja has decided to take it upon herself to become a mother and set forth upon this earth her daft offspring. But she is not the only culprit. It happens all over the world on a daily basis. Especially in the US, home of Teen Mom and 16 & Pregnant. If only procreation was harder (perhaps with an IQ test involved) our planet would not be in such a sorry state with such sorry people as its inhabitants. One can only shake her head and laugh ... and hope the end is near.

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

David Bean — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:36:48 -0000

I think Sonja is lovely. The reaction from the invariably left-wing offenderati to some of her tweets swiftly became the usual orgy of self-righteous indignation. No matter she expressed not a word of malice, Sonja had been selected as their latest target of opportunity, and so the abuse poured on in without a moment's consideration or remorse - because what matters for this particular brand of leftist is not what people actually mean, but how it makes them feel, and as a result we are all held hostage to the emotional turbulence of irrational beings. Offend their timid sensibilities and we become fair game, for the one minority they fairly revel in hating and abusing is the individual.

The naive thing Sonja did was to assert her right to exist in the same world as such people. Thankfully, as posts such as yours have shown, she might very well have been right after all.

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

Jonny Lygdman — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:18:55 -0000

She have gained 25k new followers to the @Sweden account, could it be better? The media attention she's gained... wow.

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

jennyjenjen — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 02:32:32 -0000

I really appreciate your response! Thank you for your feedback and I agree with you quite thoroughly.

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

jennyjenjen — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 02:32:06 -0000

Thank you for the great feedback :)

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

jennyjenjen — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 02:23:01 -0000

Great perspective, thank you!

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

jennyjenjen — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 02:22:12 -0000

Thank you very much!

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

Aviefar — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:32:30 -0000

Why hiding the fact that many Scandinavians, not only Swedes, are Anti Semites. That the reason they hate the Jewish state, Israel, too. It is very interesting that Jews had never have many and great communities over there. I think that the Scandinavian Anti Semitism intensify because of strong Israel, as symbolizing the New Modern Jew, that can look at the Scandinavian from above. And that irritate those white shallow skin unenergetic Scandinavians.

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

f. — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:06:25 -0000

I don't find anything offensive or media-frenzy-worthy about her comments. I think on a very basic level what's annoying about her question is that when someone is on such a high platform (tweeting on behalf of her country, albeit in a casual way), she could have thought twice before posting such a basic question and just looked up some information online first before opening this topic, or any topic for that matter. It's the same kind of annoyance I have with people I know who repeatedly ask me where my country is located (I'm from eastern europe). At some point I get fed up and wish they'd just look it up on google maps or something like that, and then talk to me if they are interested in something more "advanced". It just seems that in this modern world with information available at our fingertips, we should be taking advantage of this incredible opportunity to access knowledge so easily. Then, having learned the basics, we can engage in a dialogue that will be all the more meaningful and take us farther. Using twitter as encyclopedia/yahoo answers seems like a waste of internet space. I mean, sure, we can ask "what day/time is it?" on twitter, but that would be annoying to me at least.

By the way, my friend suggested that maybe Sonja herself was Jewish (possible in theory with last name abrahamsson, wouldn't you agree?) Now that would have added some more humor to the situation.

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

Feldegast_92 — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:38:11 -0000

Very very well written! :)

Re: In defense of @sweden’s @hejsonja

Sonjarobson — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:04:52 -0000

As someone (US/Swedish citizen)who grew up in Sweden I understand that she's confused. The country is still dealing with a very new "melting pot" for them and they are so naive and unprepared for "new" cultures.