Reflection on Social Media Case 9: Ponderize

This week’s case study was about Devin Durrant and his son and a story I have never heard of, it is about the LDS church and I am not LDS so that may be why. Durrant who is a big name around the church and reffered to as, “Elder” gave a testimony about pondering and memorizing various bible verses. It seemed like everything Devin Durrant did in my opinion was okay but I think that changed when the business side of him came out. Durrant’s son after the testimony began using websites to promote their “brand.” They used the wrong platform to benefit personally from and promote himself. It seemed very skeptical once I found out that the son of Durrant immediately began selling t-shirts after his dad’s church presentation. Once they got a bad rap all over social media they began saying that all the money would be going to charity and I believe that this was just a way to cover themselves because they knew that they original plan was wrong and they got caught.

I have attached the link to Devin Durrant LDS page where it goes on to talk about what “Ponderize,” means because it is not a word in the dictionary it is a word that Durrant came up with himself (https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/10/my-heart-pondereth-them-continually?lang=eng). The meaning behind that word he says is, “I like to say it’s a combination of 80 percent extended pondering and 20 percent memorization.”

On the next article attached from KUTV a news channel in Salt Lake in goes into depth on how the who website was removed after this incident (http://kutv.com/news/local/amid-criticism-ponderize-website-removed-after-lds-general-conference.) It involves quotes from the Durrants trying to save themselves and their reputation. At the end of the day I can see both points of views but them being so involved with the LDS church they should know wrong or right and I felt like they knew this was a big risk, there is a time and place for everything.

Reflection on Social Media Case 8: Pastor's 10% to God

This is a very interesting case study because this is a problem that seems to come up a lot. I actually feel like you should not go out to eat if you aren’t prepared to leave a tip. I agree if the service is bad that is one thing but other than that I feel like leaving a tip for your server should be mandatory. People feel like it is optional to leave a tip. I feel like when servers are doing their job and the service isn’t bad it is a slap in the face to them when you don’t leave a tip because they are working and serving to you and when you don’t pay someone it appears that they are your slave doing it for free. I think that there is no problem with the server posting this online and I don’t think that she should have been fired for it. The pastor did have the right to be upset but it was also very disrespectful of him to cross out the tip and then put “$0,” and that was her point when posting it to show that servers aren’t getting the respect they deserve. In the link attached it explains minimum wage for servers, https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm. Based off of that you would see why servers getting tips is necessary or it is almost impossible to survive. They say people should tip anywhere from 10-20% so I feel that we should just meet in the middle and the restaurant or bar should just automatically include a 15% gratuity that is mandatory to pay. At the end of the day I think that the receipt being posted online is both of their faults. The pastor was upset because his reputation was ruined because of this and the waitress was upset because she got fired for posting this online. I think that it is both of their faults though because this would have never been posted if he just left a tip in the first place or talked with someone about what he was upset about and didn’t leave a note on the receipt. Attached I have a link that goes into detail about this scenario, https://consumerist.com/2013/01/31/waitress-who-posted-no-tip-receipt-from-pastor-customer-fired-from-job/.

Reflection on Social Media Case 7: Anthony Weiner’s Post

This story about Anthony Weiner was very interesting and something that I have never heard of before. With social media, today it isn’t surprising to hear stories like this because once something happens the first place it goes to is twitter or Facebook. Part of Public official’s jobs is to be active on social media and let everyone know what is going on. With that comes a blue check mark next to their name meaning that their account is verified. That means that everything is coming directly from them. Part of the problem with social media is once you start getting attention on it you get accustomed to that and feel like you need it all the time. That was part of Anthony Weiner’s problem he was direct messaging girls before and while he was married and it eventually led him to a divorce and the loss of his job. With social media in today’s world you can’t hide anything from anyone, especially if you are in office and you are monitored so closely. Weiner was then caught sexting with a 15-year-old girl and it cost him 21 well deserved months in federal prison.

When I first read all the info about Anthony Weiner and found out how he was DMing girls, sexting, lost his job and even got a divorce the first person that popped into my head was Tiger Woods for doing similar things. Tiger cheated on his wife with over 12 girls and was always seeking attention from someone new and it eventually led to him getting a divorce and hurting his golfing career. Attached I have a list of texts that tiger was sending one of his side girls Joslyn James, http://www.businessinsider.com/16-raunchy-text-messages-tiger-woods-sent-to-joslyn-james-2010-3. I feel that today with social media it only hurts relationships because your always wrapped up in if they are posting about you enough or whose pictures are they liking and it’s just too hard to be in a relationship if you have trust issues with your partner. In the article I have attached it goes in detail on all of the problems social media can create on a relationship, https://www.hercampus.com/love/relationships/5-ways-social-media-hurting-your-relationship.