What’s Up on Social Media

Kalee Black
3 min readSep 9, 2019

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By: Kalee Black

There are many things that are trending on social media. What is trending changes constantly and range from social challenges, activities or experiences and pictures of animals doing cute or strange things. Do you know what is trending on social media?

What is trending on social media is always changing. For some jobs, it is important to know what is current on social media to help someone perform their job or help their company become successful.

But how do you know what is current or trending. There is not a big flashing light or notice on a trending item or even a page that is full of current trending people, topics, or activities. Also, it depends on one’s location, race, or cultural identity.

This screenshot shows the different individuals doing the Git It Challenge on Facebook.

Through social media, one can review what is trending around the community or world. By that, one will have to find what is most shared or most posted about on each social media page. For instance, a well known one is the Git Up Challenge.

Majority of Facebook users have had the opportunity to watch the Git Up Challenge even if in the beginning they did not know they were watching the start of a huge national challenge.

Many seem to be enjoying the diversity of the people in the Git Up Challenge videos. While scrolling through Facebook, there have been several videos that have police officers dancing.

Another trending on social media is posting about his or her experience throwing axes. What trends on social media seems to increase the number of people that participate in the activity. Some of the pictures on Facebook, one can see over and over again on the newsfeed, because someone else shares, likes, or comments on it. Also, people like to post videos or pictures on Instagram, which is another social media forum that lends to what is trending.

Through social media it seems to have helped the popularity of axe throwing. This popularity causes an increase in locations to participate. The closest axe throwing venue near Saint Joseph, Missouri was in Kansas City. With the popularity of axe throwing re-enforced through social media someone has decided there is a need for an axe throwing venue in Saint Joseph. The Saint Joseph’s location is on Frederick Avenue.

This shows a variety of axe throwing on Instagram.
This is a cute puppies from a The Dodo channel on Snapchat. The Dodo is a channel that one is able to look at cat and dog stories.

Being on Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram, you mostly see pictures of cats and dogs. This is an ongoing trending subject on social media. For many years, Americans have found dogs and cats are adorable and want to share their loved one or someone else’s. They are posting cute pictures, videos and stories of their cats and dogs.

To stay current on what is trending on social media you needs to be on more than one social media site. What is trending changes constantly and one must view multiple sites and stay active and current on multiple sites to see what is trending.

#gitupchallenge#axethrowing#catsanddogs

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Kalee Black

Kalee Black is finishing her Strategic Communication Degree. She enjoys creating social media content and creaking news packages.