{"id":33326,"date":"2013-04-23T13:09:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T19:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/23\/quantifiable-popularity.html"},"modified":"2013-04-23T13:09:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T19:09:12","slug":"quantifiable-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/23\/quantifiable-popularity.html","title":{"rendered":"Quantifiable Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"
An interesting aspect to social media and today's tweens and teens: popularity isn't just subjective any more — it's an objective number of likes, reshares, plusses, etc. \u00a0It's numeric.<\/i> And kids are very aware\u00a0it.<\/p>\n

(Of course, we adults<\/i> don't obsess over likes, follows, page hits, Klout ratings, etc. … but, then, we're all mature, secure individuals who don't hinge our self-image based on Internet scores, right? \u00a0Right?) (h\/t +<\/span>James D.<\/a><\/span>)<\/div>\n

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Life as of Late: Parents: A Word about Instagram<\/a>
\n There is so much information out there about internet safety and you should definitely read up on that, but that’s not what I want to talk about. Over the past several months, I’ve been noticing some …\n <\/p>\n

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An interesting aspect to social media and today's tweens and teens: popularity isn't just subjective any more — it's an objective number of likes, reshares, plusses, etc. \u00a0It's numeric. And kids are very aware\u00a0it. (Of course, we adults don't obsess over likes, follows, page hits, Klout ratings, etc. … but, then, we're all mature, secure … Continue reading “Quantifiable Popularity”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51169,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/16\/whats-in-a-name.html","url_meta":{"origin":33326,"position":0},"title":"What's in a Name?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 16-May-15 5:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Cool look at first name popularity in the US over the decades. 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