Author: Kelsey Leonhard

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COM0014 – Blog 7: Reflection of Digital Communication And Storytelling 

This whole course was fun and interesting. The blogs we had to make were great and I learnt a lot about storytelling. I can’t believe that this is my last blog for this course. 

Blogs

During this course, I loved making the blogs. While they were a bit stressful, since I usually made them close to the last day, they were interesting. While I have made four other blogs for another course before, the blogs for this course were different. 

What was different was the topics that I had to write about. They made me write about things outside of my comfort zone and topics that I have no clue how I even came up with something to write about. These blogs challenged me, and I learnt a lot from just the blogs alone. 

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For the harder blogs, I just started writing something down, and before I knew it, I had a bunch of paragraphs and was past the minimum required of words. I didn’t realize how easy it was to write and come up with content for the topics as soon as I stopped thinking too much about the topic. 

After this course, I would really like to get into blogging as a hobby. I had fun, and it was great. While I might not post content where I type I lot like these blogs, I would still be as fun as this was. I was thinking about a photography blog with pictures I post. 

Storytelling

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This course taught me a lot about storytelling. While I did know that people had posted stories online before this course, I never really thought about the storytelling in the way that this course has mentioned it. It changed a bit of the way I will view online content and the content that I will post online. 

Storytelling is important to creating great digital content because storytelling helps make great digital content. You can’t have great digital content without telling the story of that content. Stories help the content become greater. It helps them express emotion and be remembered, like how the course mentioned how legends were. 

All my future content will be guided by a story. Like I mentioned before, I would like to post pictures and talk about them. Storytelling will help guide how the blog will be formatted or what would be said. 

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For myself, I don’t really have any types of stories that I want to tell. I would like to blog for fun, not to get noticed, so I wouldn’t try to make legendary stories for my future blog. Great stories of course, but it would be nice to blog as a hobby and not to get my name out there. If I ever did, I would try my best to make legendary stories. 

Conclusion

This course has helped me find a new hobby and something to look out for in online content. It was interesting how storytelling changed on the internet. I can’t wait to see how it will change in the future and how my storytelling will change. Have you ever written a story online before? What was one of your favorite stories you have heard? 

Late Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Kelsey Leonhard

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COM0014 – Blog 6: My Storytelling of a Grilled Cheese Sandwich 

For this week’s blog, I have to choose one of the questions in this article and then answer the question as if I was telling a story. While thinking about a story I could write, I couldn’t think of a topic to write about. The question I chose to answer was “What experiences can I share that will help my audience?”. 

I must have been hungry while thinking because I chose to write about my experiences with grilled cheese sandwiches. Grilled cheese sandwiches are one of my favorite foods of all time. It’s tasty, easy to cook and easy to clean up afterwards. 

The Beginning

I can’t remember my first time having a grilled cheese sandwich. When I was young, I would have a grilled cheese sandwiches often to eat. I usually eat them at my grandparents’ house when I visit, but I have them sometimes at my own house. 

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My first time making my own grilled cheese sandwich was when I was old enough to use a stove top. I was somewhere around 11 to 13 years old. Around that time, I was in Scouts Canada. I was at a camp, and I had to learn about stove safety to get a stove permit to be able to use the stove at future camps. 

I first had to learn about how dangerous a stove was and then how to use one. To test my knowledge of the stove, I then had to cook something on the stove. The test was a grilled cheese sandwich. 

The Creation

The first thing I had to do was get all the ingredients for the sandwich. Then I had to prepare the sandwich. Which was adding butter to the bread that would touch the pan. After that, I had to turn on the stove. With the pan on the hot stove top, I had to add the sandwich on the pan one piece at a time. 

 I started with the first slice of buttered bread, then the cheese and then the last piece of buttered bread. After waiting for one side to be cooked, I would then flip it to the other side and wait for that side to be cooked. Once the last side was cooked, it was done, and I could eat the sandwich. 

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While making the sandwich, I was a bit nervous, because I didn’t do anything like it before. But as I started to make one, I realized how easy it was. I then decided to make more of this sandwich by myself more often. 

Perfecting The Sandwich

After that camp, I started to make grilled cheese sandwiches for myself. I didn’t make them too often, but it was great that I was able to make this yummy snack myself. It wasn’t till I was in my last couple of years of high school, that I started changing the recipe for grilled cheese sandwiches. 

It all started when I ordered a sandwich from Tim Horton’s, and I decided to try something new. I ordered grilled cheese melt with bacon. As I looked at what was in that sandwich, I realized that it was a basic grilled cheese sandwich but with bacon and two different kinds of cheese. 

From there, I decided to add bacon to my own grilled cheese sandwiches at home. I got some already cooked bacon bits from a store and added them in between the cheese and a bread slice. It made my already yummy sandwich into one of the best sandwiches I ever had. 

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After making that sandwich a couple of times, I decided to add more cheese. I tried two different slices of cheese and even two of the same slices. Then I found my perfect grilled cheese sandwich. Buttered bread, two slices of cheese and bacon bits.  

Afterwards

While this is my perfect sandwich, I don’t make it as often as I would like. For one, it costs too much money to get the bacon bits and a different type of sliced cheese. I also don’t eat grilled cheese as often as I used to, so it would go bad before I finished the bacon and that different type of cheese.  

So, while I can’t make my perfect sandwich, I can make a sandwich that is close enough and still tastes good. I usually just have a grilled cheese sandwich with two of the same type of cheese. That is my experience with grilled cheese sandwiches. 

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I shared this store to tell people about grilled cheese sandwiches. While some people might think that this story is about change, this story is about a great tasty grilled cheese sandwich. After reading this blog, would you make and try this sandwich? 

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Kelsey Leonhard

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COM0014 – Blog 5: My Own Personal Branding  

I haven’t really thought about or tried to describe my own personal branding before. Personal branding would be like your qualities, characteristics, and experiences. Basically, what makes you well you. To describe your own personal branding, you would have to describe yourself.  

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Qualities and Characteristics  

One of the first things about myself is my qualities and characteristics. For my own personal brand, I would have to choose the qualities and characteristics that I believe define me or describe most of myself. Two of the qualities that I believe describe me are friendliness and kindliness.  

Both qualities are almost on the same side of the coin. When one person is being friendly, they usually act kind. When one person is being kind, they are usually friendly. It is possible to be one without the other, but they both usually come as one. At least that is my opinion.  

I am both friendly and kind. A lot of people I know usually tell me that I have these qualities. I like to help people I know when they need help, and I am not usually rude to people. Out of my siblings, I am known as the friendliest and kindest. In my own personal branding, these qualities are the most likely to show.  

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Standing Out

For personal branding, another way to show your branding is to have something that you have done recently to make yourself stand out. This event can help describe your own personal brand or be something that you can write about in your own personal brand. It can help describe your own personal brand because it can show off your personality.  

One thing that I have done recently is that I volunteer at a food bank. This event helps me with my personal brand because it helps prove my two qualities mentioned above and any other qualities that I might have.  

Other Opinions  

Everything mentioned above is what I have said about myself and my qualities. Sometimes you might need another person’s opinions to find out what traits you should add to your own personal branding.  

An example of this is my trait of being hard-working. My colleagues at the food bank would say that my best trait is that I am hard-working. Since I do a lot of good work at the food bank, I am always on time, and I don’t fall behind in work.  

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Conclusion

To describe my own personal brand, it would be something that shows off my best qualities and traits. Something that would show that I am friendly, kind, and hard-working. Something that shows off the best parts of who I am while not being fake about everything else. My own personal branding would be who I am.  

Have you ever described your own personal brand before? What are your best qualities and traits? 

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Kelsey Leonhard

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COM0014 – Blog 4: The B2C Case Study of Wendy’s 

Wendy’s is a business that performs transactions to consumers, which is also known as a business to consumer (B2C) transaction. They sell food and drink products to consumers, who then become their customers. Wendy’s also has a presence on different social media platforms. They use social media to talk about and promote their products. They are on Facebook, X, Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram.

Facebook 

Wendy’s has an online presence on Facebook. They have about 8.4 million likes on their Facebook Page. They post about a couple of times a month. They usually post videos about their products, but they also post pictures, and they ask their community about their products. While it doesn’t seem likely they reply to every post, they do reply if someone has a problem or feedback about their products. 

Wendy’s Facebook Page

An example of a post by Wendy’s on Facebook is this post below made by them. It is a video of a product that they have at Wendy’s for a limited time. In the comment section, Wendy’s has replied to some of the comments. 

Post Made By Wendy’s Via Facebook

As you can see, this is a comment made in the post above. While Wendy’s doesn’t comment often, they will comment if there is a problem with their product. In the post above, Wendy’s has replied on 4 people’s comment.

X Or Twitter 

Wendy’s has presence online on X as well. They have about 3.8 million followers on their X. They post about the same number of posts as Facebook, a couple of times a month. They post similar content to Facebook, like videos and pictures of their products and they also ask the community about their products. It seems like they have more of a presence on X, since they reply to more comments on their posts. 

Wendy’s X page
Post Made by Wendy’s Via X

Above is an example of a post by Wendy’s on X account. It is a picture of a new product that they have at Wendy’s for a limited time. Unlike Facebook, Wendy’s has replied to more people in the comment section. They have more of a presence in their X community than their Facebook Community because they reply to comments more often on X. Above, Wendy’s has replied on about eleven peoples’ comment.

Conclusion

While Wendy’s has a presence on other social media platforms, Facebook and X are some of their biggest social media platforms. They do have a Reddit account, but it doesn’t look as popular. They also have a TikTok, but it has only 1.8 million followers, which is less than Facebook and X. Their Instagram is even less popular at 1.1 million followers. 

Wendy’s uses social media to only make a couple of posts a month. Usually about deals, special offers or new products. They do make engaging posts to the community by asking them questions. It also seems like they do not comment on every post. They comment more often on X, but it seems like they will always comment if there is a problem with their products. 

Have you ever commented on a B2C company’s social Media? If so, why did you comment? Or Have you ever commented on a Wendy’s post?

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Kelsey Leonhard

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COM0014 – Blog 3: The Target Audience of Percy Jackson: The Book Series 

Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a famous book series that is read by all ages. The series has 6 books in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, but there are sequel series and even more connected books. 

The books are about Percy Jackson’s life dealing with Greek mythology in the modern world. In this series, you get to learn about Greek mythology at the same time as Percy, but with different stories that have a new twist to it. 

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The target audience can be sorted into demographic and psychographics. Demographics are who is the book for. Like their age, gender, ethic, religion, education, and family type. Psychographics are what the person is like. Like their likes, living class, and what they do. 

Target Audience Of The Book 

The Target audience of Percy Jackson and the Olympians is 9- to 14-years-old. The book has this age range because it is about the age of Percy in the books. During the book series, Percy starts at 12 years old and grows up one year in each book to 15 years old. So, the age range for each book is the same age as Percy so the reader can relate to Percy. 

The target audience is children. Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a children book series. This book series does not target any specific children. It is for any child, no matter their gender, ethics, religion, or family type.  

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Education For A Book

This book does have an educational requirement to read it. The requirement isn’t high since it is for 9-year-old children, but they must know how to read a book to enjoy it. Of course, anyone could enjoy the book if they had someone else to read it to them, so the educational requirement isn’t that much of a big deal. 

More About The Children

While the age range of this series is 9- to 14-year-olds, not all children are the target audience. Since it is a book, it has a target audience of book readers. It doesn’t matter if they are children who enjoy a book sometimes or read books 5 times a day, if they read books, they are the target audience. 

This can even be boiled down even more. The genre of the books are fantasy, action, and adventure. So, if a child likes to read fantasy, action, adventure or a mixture of all three genres, they are a part of the target audience. More children who are a part of the target audience is children who are interest or enjoy Greek mythology, since the books has a lot of Greek mythology in them. 

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Price

The children in this book’s target audience have families in the middle to high class. Since books cost money to buy, the people who could afford the books would be the target audience. The books aren’t that expensive either, since the target audience is children, who don’t have a lot of money to buy books themselves. 

Conclusion

The demographics of the target audience of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians are 9- to 14-year-olds who can read books. The psychographics of this book is children, with families who can afford books, who like to read fantasy, action, and adventure books or books about Greek mythology. 

But that is not to say that the book isn’t for everyone. While above is the target audience, people of all ages can like the book. I’m not in the target audience anymore, but I still enjoy this series. I loved this series ever seen I have read it. Have you ever read Percy Jackson and the Olympians? If you did, did you like it or dislike it? If you haven’t, does the book sound interesting? 

Written by

Kelsey Leonhard

Refences:

Bobby, (2022, December 18), Exploring The Reading Level Of The Percy Jackson Series: Suitable For Ages 12 And Up, Tagari.
https://www.tagari.com/exploring-the-reading-level-of-the-percy-jackson-series-suitable-for-ages-12-and-up/

Harmer, J. (2022, May 4), Percy Jackson Books Age Guide: When should kids read it?, Trekker School.
https://trekkerschool.com/age-to-read-percy-jackson/#:~:text=Percy%20Jackson%20books%20are%20intended%20for%20kids%20ages,still%20be%20exciting%20enough%20to%20keep%20them%20reading.

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COM0014 – Blog #2: Reflection On What I Learnt This Week

This blog will be my thoughts on the Inverted Pyramid or Triangle. It is a very interesting approach on how to write a blog and I have mixed feelings about it. As I was writing this article, reflecting what what I learned this week, I can’t deny that it isn’t a bad approach to writing blogs.

It is a pretty good approach that helps a writer start their blog. It is a really good template to follow. It reminds me of all of the basics that I have learned from writing essays and news articles in middle School.

For example, in the first paragraph. While learning how to write both essays and news articles, they always talked about how the first paragraph is important to hook the reader. For the inverted pyramid approach, it is the same. The first paragraph is very crucial to hook and keep a reader attention.

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The Mixed Feelings

The only problem that I have with this approach that is giving me mixed feelings has nothing really to do with the approach. It has to do with a lesson that I had learned in middle school about news articles. As I learned how to write news articles for the first time, my teacher was really clear that no feelings or emotions go into it. A news article must be all facts. This is the one thing that is giving me mixed feelings. This one thing the teacher had said.

Why? It gives mixed feelings because the inverted pyramid approach sounds really similar to the approach that the teacher taught my class about news articles. While I write blogs, I want to put my emotions into my words because, to me, a blog is personal. A blog is something that you write about your feelings, emotions, and yourself. But a news article is something that is fact and not from a person or their emotions.

It is just this one small moment in my life that is brothering me when ever I write a blog. When I think about writing a blog, for some reason I keep going back to that class where I learned about news articles. I am not sure why, but I sort of writing with that lesson in mind. But then I realized where I am basing my blog and realize that I have to add emotion and first person because it is a blog, not a news article.

Conclusion

Although this hasn’t really affected my blogs at all. All of my blogs seem fine and have emotion. They aren’t what I had in the part of my mind thinking about news articles. They turn out like a blog. So maybe this isn’t really a big thing that bothers me, but something more that I think about from time to time. Maybe it is just something my mind connects together and says “Huh, this is weird”. And then I can not stop thinking about it. But who knows about that, since it is all in my head.

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While writing this blog post, I tried to keep the inverted pyramid in mind. It made me change the topic of my blog multiple times and I still don’t think I have warped up my mixed feelings on this topic, if I still have them. After writing this blog, I have come to a conclusion about my mixed feelings. The inverted pyramid is an interesting approach to writing, but happens to come close to a subject that I have mixed feelings about. I have no mixed feelings about the inverted pyramid itself.

Did you also have similar thoughts on the inverted pyramid approach? So you find it weird how blogs and new articles are similar in writing approaches?

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Kelsey Leonhard

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COM0014 – Blog 1: Why I loved Montreal

During my last vacation, I went on a trip to Montreal. I stayed in Montreal in a hotel for five days. Throughout those five days, I explored the underground mall, tried some new food, and bought new items in Montreal. I had a great time and would like to go again.

Hotel

The hotel we stayed at was called the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth. It was a more fancier hotel. Our room was okay, but it was not the best. It was a nice room with a great view. We had a good view of the the Ring, which is an art display. The only problem with our room was that it didn’t have a fridge or a microwave. Below is a picture from the hotel room.

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Underground Mall

In Montreal, they have a big underground mall that goes on for blocks. While I was not able to walk through the whole underground mall, I was able to see half of it. We were able to enter the underground mall through the hotel we stayed at. In the basement of the hotel, it was attached to the mall. The mall had a bunch of shops and food courts.

Shopping

I also went shopping during the trip and bought many different items. One type of item that I bought was cute plush toys. Some of them were pandas, which is my favorite animal, and I got a cat. There is a picture of some of the toys above. I got some new books and more panda-themed items.

Food

During our stay in Montreal, I tried food from restaurants that I hadn’t seen before. I ate food at the food courts in the mall or other restaurants that we saw walking around. There was a burger place, an ice cream place, and a drink store. Below is a picture of some food I got in Montreal.

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The restaurant which served burgers was called Patty Slaps. I ordered a burger called a Bacon Blaze and I rate it a 5 out of 5. Next time I go to Montreal, I will eat there again. We ate at an ice cream place in the mall. I forgot what it was called, but the ice cream there was good. I got a chocolate ice cream and a Red Bull flavor ice cream. I rate it a 3 out of 5. The restaurant that served drinks was called Presotea. I had a Japanese burned coffee slush and it was one of the best drinks I had. I rate it a 5 out of 5 and would eat there again.

Conclusion

This was a great trip and I had a lot of fun. While I did a lot of walking, I saw a bunch of new things. I ate a bunch of great food. In all, I have to go back again. I must go back and eat the great food again. I need to also go back and continue exploring that underground mall. Also, I need to bring a bathing suit and try out the swimming pool they have in the hotel.

Montreal isn’t a bad place to visit and I would like to visit again for another vacation. I had a great time and can’t wait to go there again. Did you every go to Montreal before, and if so, what was one thing you loved about Montreal? Or if you haven’t been to Montreal before, would you go now after reading this blog?

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YouTube Allows Businesses To Do Free Good Deeds and Still Get Paid 

Prices have been going up and businesses don’t really have the time or money to do good deeds. They are too busy trying to stay afloat to even think about spending money on other people, not to mention doing services for free. So, how can some businesses do free good deeds, while others can’t? The answer is YouTube. These businesses have figured out a way to do a free good deed for their community while still getting paid to do what they love, their job. 

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How It Works

They start with a person that they found who needs their services but might not have enough money to pay for it. Then they talk to that person and come to an agreement. The agreement would be what service will be provided, if they are okay with it being filmed, and that it is free. After they agree to those terms, they start filming and doing that service. When they are done, they go home, edit the video, and post it on YouTube.  

Eventually, they will get money from the videos they post. The money comes from the advertisements on their video and sponsorships if they have them. At first, it might not be a lot of money, but if they keep posting videos, getting views and subscribers, they will get enough cash to pay for the job that they just did. With this in mind, you might not think that these videos get a lot of views, but after watching some of those videos, I couldn’t stop. They were just so satisfying. 

The YouTubers

The first YouTube channel I will mention is SB Pressure Washing. He has a landscaping business. For this YouTube channel, he posts all pressure washing videos. Some of his videos are his good deeds, where he pressures washes people’s sidewalks and roads. He posts these videos once a week. He also has another channel called SB Mowing, where he does landscaping for money and even for free. 

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The second YouTube channel is Midwest Magic Cleaning. His business is where he cleans houses owned by hoarders. He posts videos where he cleans those houses and even talks about his own experiences, his job, and other random things. In some of his videos, he does free cleanings for hoarders who might not have the money or time to clean it themselves. 

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The last YouTube channel is Fill’s Lawn Care. He also owns a landscaping business. He posts videos where he cleans up other people’s lawns. A lot of his videos are about him doing free lawn care for people who can’t afford it or people who got scammed by another landscaping business. 

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Why?

After reading all of this, you might ask why these businesses do this, or I still don’t understand why people watch this. The answer is that it is satisfying. To them and those businesses, the before and after is very satisfying to watch and do. To have something overgrown and dirty cleaned is something that people enjoy watching and doing.  

At first, I didn’t understand why mowing the lawn was on YouTube, I thought it was like watching paint dry. Something boring to pass the time. But after watching one video, I was hooked. Anytime I was looking for something to watch and there was a clean or mowing video, I would watch it. It was just too satisfying to watch. I wanted to clean something just like they did and see the end result. 

Has there ever been a random YouTube video that you thought was weird, but hooked you in? After reading this article, would you watch one of these YouTubers? Or are there any other businesses that do good deeds on YouTube that you watch? 

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Kelsey Leonhard

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How Social Media Allows Adults and Kids to Enjoy TV Shows and Movies For Free 

Ever since social media came out, cable has started to die. More and more people have found that they like to use online services over cable. Even my family only has a television for the news. So, TV show companies have started to lose money. Which means that they have started to turn to different options than just television.

One option that I have seen more often as the years passed by, is that TV show companies are putting their own shows online. Whether it be for free or for money, they have started to put tv shows online for people to watch. It is one of the ways that TV companies have decided to use against online services. 

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One of the top social media sites that I have seen these companies put their shows on is YouTube. Since YouTube is a popular video sharing site, it is easy enough to use for their own purposes. They have every season of their shows and even some movies. Some of their content is even free. But a lot of it costs money. 

Paid Shows and Movies on Social Media.

Since they have made those shows and movies in the first place to make money, it makes sense that it costs to watch them. You can use your own money to buy or rent shows and movies. For example, you can buy or rent movies. You can buy them forever, only to be seen on YouTube or you can rent them for a short time, only to be seen on YouTube. But you must pay to watch TV shows, and there is no rent option. Also, you must pay for each season individually. 

But not all the shows and movies on YouTube cost money. Some of them are free. Most of the paid shows and movies are either popular or brand new. These shows and movies are the ones that people would already spend money to see anywhere else. 

Free Shows and Movies on Social Media

Like I said before, some companies have their shows and movies online for free. But most of these are older movies and shows. I don’t know why the older shows and movies are most likely to be free, but they are. I think they are free because they are older. Since they are older, people aren’t as likely to spend money on them. So, they might as well make them free and get money on it from in another way. But that is just my opinion. 

While there aren’t a lot of free shows on YouTube, there are some. Most of them are old children cartoon TV shows. I have used YouTube to watch some of these for free myself. For movies, you can either watch them for free or for free with ads. 

Why?

You might be asking why this is important. Why should I care that old shows are free to watch on YouTube? The answer is the newer generation. Adults can use YouTube to watch the older shows that they have enjoyed when they were young and watch them with their kids. The adults will also be able to remember their childhood and have fun. 

For myself, I would love to go back and watch the shows I watched as a child, but I never really found the time. I didn’t want to go and look for the DVDs that I own. But one day, I was looking around on YouTube, and I saw that a TV company was live streaming some of the TV shows I liked watching when I was a child. So, I watched the stream. I liked rewatching the show and had fun.  

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While cable and television are dying out, the old TV shows and movies aren’t. They are finding new life on social media with newer audiences. They are helping adults connect and have fun with their kids. TV companies might be making money on these older shows, but they are still allowing their audience to have fun and make new memories. 

Have you seen any free shows on social media recently? After reading this blog, did you want to go and watch old shows from your childhood? Have you ever watched any shows on social media? 

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Kelsey Leonhard

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Why I Use Facebook Marketplace, And Why You Should Too

Before I go on about why Facebook Marketplace is such a great asset, let me explain what it is. Facebook Marketplace is the part of Facebook where you can sell or buy items locally or shipped. For instance, you could sell that old coffee table, or you could buy an air fryer that you have always wanted. That is just one example of what Marketplace has to offer. 

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Buying On Facebook Marketplace

The first thing you would most likely do on Marketplace is to buy an item. It is very easy to buy an item on Marketplace.  Marketplace offers categories, a search and filters for its catalog of items to help you narrow down what you are looking for. Categories help you narrow down the item type like toys or furniture. Filters can help you narrow down where the item is located and how much it costs. There are even images of the item for sale. 

Once you find the item you are looking for, you will direct message or DM the buyer using Facebook Messenger. You will discuss availability of the item, location, time, and method of payment (such as cash or Venmo). The price can even be haggled. Then you will meet up and buy your item.  

I have used Marketplace to buy items myself since it is very easy to use. I once found this listing of two stuffed panda toys. It didn’t cost that much, and I didn’t have those two toys in my collection of panda themed items, so I bought it. The Buyer was very friendly, and I was able to pick the items up as soon as we were both free.  

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Selling On Facebook Marketplace

Now, the other half of Marketplace is selling. You yourself can sell that dusty old coffee table for some extra cash instead of throwing it in the trash. The first thing to do to sell an item is to take pictures of said item. These photos will show the item and its condition to the seller. Then you go to Marketplace and create a listing. Here you will upload the image(s) and fill out the rest of the listing. You fill out information such as the title, price, description, category, and condition of the item. 

After filling out that information and posting the listing, a buyer or buyers will contact you. As I said above, you will discuss location, time, and method of payment on DM. Once you have an agreement with a buyer, you will meet to sell the item. The best thing yet, Facebook will not take a cut of your profit. It is 100% yours. 

Of course, I have sold items on Marketplace. I once had two Snoopy Christmas themed items in my house. I didn’t need them, and they were taking up space, so I decided to sell it. I quickly made a listing and waited for a couple of days. Someone contacted me, so I was able to sell those items and make some quick cash.  

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Why So You Use Facebook Marketplace? 

Marketplace is a place to buy items you want locally. Since it uses location, you will be able to see where the item is located. Items that are closer to you usually pop up first on the search results, so you are more likely to buy locally. The search function also allows you to search for anything you want, even if it is more of a niche item that is hard to find. If someone is selling it, you will see the listing. 

Wherever you choose to sell or buy an item on Marketplace, you are keeping it out of the trash. If you are selling an item, you don’t want that item. And when you don’t want an item, you throw it away. So, if you use Marketplace, you are keeping useable items out of the trash. 

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Therefore, when you look at that old coffee table and think that you need a new one, look no further. Marketplace is the place to get rid of that coffee table while buying a new one at the same time. So, will you use Facebook Marketplace the next time you want to buy or sell an item? Have you already used Marketplace to buy or sell an item? If so, do you like using it or did you have a bad experience? 

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Kelsey Leonhard

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