Find your person on #TinderU

Tinder.

A place to find your match. Your lover. Your soulmate.

A location-based social search mobile free app that allows users to like or dislike other users, and allows users to chat if they match with each other. Essentially, it's a dating app.

Left for no, pass but maybe next time. Right for yes, I'm very interested!

Since its launch in 2012, it's become one of the most popular lifestyle apps. In 2018, there was "an average of 1.5 billion swipes and 21 million matches."

Tinder is mobile only, free, and easy to use. What more can you ask for?

Once matched, the rest is up to you to build the relationship. Many take this dating app seriously and others casually use it. The cons to this mobile app is most people who use it casually only want a hook up with no ties and it is tied to your location, which can be scary. It tells you how many miles you are from the person you've matched with.

Moreover, Tinder has helped many find their soulmates and future spouses. Download Tinder today and check it out!

Welcome to #swipelife.

The POWER of Youtube

Started by Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley, three former Paypal employees, Youtube first launched in December of 2005 and has now become one of the most visited websites in the history of the Internet. It is only 14 years old! Since then, Youtube has changed the world forever. 

Youtube is a video sharing service where users can create their own profile, make and upload videos, watch others, and like and comment. 

















In fact, Youtube is now the world's 2nd biggest search engine for more than 1.8 billion people registered on the site to check it daily to watch over 5 billion videos that people have uploaded. Every 60 seconds more than 400 hours of video is being uploaded to Youtube.

A Nike commercial became the first video to receive one million views. 

Youtube grew so fast in the first year it was created that owners Chen and Hurley sold Youtube to Google for $1.65 billion in November of 2006. 

Moreover, people have abandoned traditional TV for Youtube because they can filter out videos that have interest to them. For example, makeup tutorials or a favorite movie or how to play fortnite. Not only have people ditched cable, but people have quit their jobs to start a career on Youtube. 

People of all ages have dropped everything to start a career on Youtube and hope for the best. Most bloggers start making money with Google Adsense on their blogs. Youtube shares 55% of its ad revenue with video creators and books an average of $7.60 per 1,000 views. When you reach 10,000 subscribers, you can expect $100 - $300 per sponsorship, and you can expect $100+ from advertisements. 

The tricky part is you can only earn income if someone clicks an ad or watches it for 30 seconds. If your video gets ten million views but nobody watches or click the ads, you don't
make any money. 

In addition, a good amount of people have become famous from Youtube. At 12, Justin Bieber uploaded home videos of him singing. It started with 100 views and the views increased by the hour. At 15, Usher found his videos and signed Bieber to Island Def Jam Recordings. 


From then on, his life changed forever. He wasn't some random, awkward teenager anymore; Bieber had thousands of teen girls screaming for him and made a top 20 song on Billboard's top 100 list. 

In all, Youtube has increasingly grown and will continue to progress and grow. It has changed people's lives forever and will carry on the impact it has already made for billions. 

Empowered Women and Empowering Women

In March, we celebrate Women's History Month. 

We recognize the great contributions that women have made to our nations. Ever since they received the right to vote through the 19th amendment in 1920 up until today, where women are still fighting to have a voice and be treated equally to men.

Hannah Testa, a 16-year-old Georgia girl, is the CEO and founder of Hannah4Change, a nonprofit that fights for the protection of animals and the environment. She sees the problems that are arising due to pollution and wants to make a difference.

Testa wants to educate people about the dangers of harming the Earth. Moreover, her accomplishments have shown who she is and who she wants to be in the future. Testa has created an identity for herself, in which she wants to help change the world for the better.

Ever since she was a child, she's had an interest in the environment. Testa and her family have cleaned beaches and have participated in marches.

"There's not much of a future at all if we don't speak up," said Testa.

Her hard work has definitely not gone unnoticed. Hannah has worked with Georgia Sen. Michael Williams to create a "Plastic Pollution Awareness Day" at the state Capitol. She's also spoken at a United Nations World Oceans Day event and was named 'Teen Earth Day Hero' by CNN.

"It's really inspirational to see so many young people realize they have a voice and a duty to speak up," Testa said, "We are sick and tired of being pushed in a corner and told to wait your turn."

To conclude, this special month not only celebrates the empowerment of women, but it also allows us as females to express ourselves and create our own identities. In addition, this relates to one of the eight values of free expression- individual self-fulfillment.

These topics relate because we are implementing how important women are to society and how every female is different and unique within their own ways. The first amendment and its values are significant to how we act and live our daily lives.

Overall, Women's History Month is "a reminder of how far we've come and how far we still have to go to ensure equal representation here and across the country. Let's recommit to getting more women involved- on their school board, on their city council, on their planning commission, or anywhere else where we're missing their voice... It's up to us to keep showing up, keep fighting for what we believe in, and keep working to ensure our voices are heard."

Trump's mandatory 'free speech' executive order

Trump's CPAC speech could make or break some universities in the U.S.

On Saturday, March 2, President Donald Trump will be signing an executive order requiring American universities and colleges to maintain 'free speech' on campuses. If universities and colleges fail to implement this order, Trump threatened that schools could lose federal research funds. Universities must support this decision, in order to gain federal research funds from the government.


This past weekend, Trump spoke at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, MD. President Trump spoke about Hayden Williams, a conservative activist who was punched at the University of California, Berkeley, last month while recruiting other students to join a conservative group.

This issue is huge as it relates to the First Amendment of the U.S Constitution. One of the very first clauses of the First Amendment is Freedom of Speech, which protects the freedom of any individual who may want to articulate their ideas or opinions without fear of retaliation or censorship.

The U.S Justice Department filed a statement of interest in 2018 in a free speech lawsuit against the University of California, Berkeley. The accused the university of discriminating against speakers and students with different, but specifically conservative views.

If universities "want our dollars and we give to them by the billions, they have to allow people like Williams and many other great, young or old, people to speak- free speech," Trump said. He said that if universities don't follow this new rule, it will cost them in the long run.

The U.S government awards universities more than $30 billion annually in federal research funds.

President Trump has yet to further disclose any other details of this executive order.

The Most Powerful Judicial Body- The Supreme Court of the U.S.

Last class, we watch a video about the history of the Supreme Court and here's what I learned...

In 1801, the government moved to Washington D.C.

Petitions arrive day by day, all year long.

Every day, these justices work hard to review a variety of cases on their own and refer back to the 200-year-old Constitution to provide a final outcome. In history, there have been over 100 Supreme Court justices and most justices serve for an average of 16 years.

Joining the court can be humbling, but also "akin to being struck by lightning," said one Justice. Being a justice is very stressful and intimidating. "We are quiet, but its the quiet of a storm center. The power rests on the public face."

After the Civil War, the constitution was amended to abolish slavery, define citizenship, and grant voting rights. After the Constitution was made, the bill of rights was added, which included the amendments. Before our time, women were unable to vote, slavery was a major issue, Native Americans were treated unfairly, and more.

The 14th amendment told the states they can not deny due process of law or equal protection of the law to any citizen. The 19th amendment allowed women the right to vote.

The Supreme Court refers to the Constitution when needing to resolve national problems. It's an advantage to have and reference. It's also an open-ended business, which the majority think its all secrets.

With almost 200 years of history, when the Supreme Court speaks, people obey. "Unspoken contract is one of the hidden keys to our freedom," said the narrator.

"If the Court ever stopped defending the Constitution or the people ever stopped listening, then one of the treasures that keep this the freest nation in the world ceases to exist." The Supreme Court is the most powerful judicial body not only in the government but in America.

Stirring the pot at U of M

(Pictured to the left is University of Michigan student Dylan Gilbert)

There have been lots of drama spreading across the University of Michigan's campus.

Last year, "University of Michigan student, Sydney Whack, remembers the frustration she and other African-American students felt a year ago when the name tag outside the dorm room of one of her friends was vandalized with the N-word," according to Detroit News.

UM's policy does not allow student housing staff to remove anything from a student's door. UM students are allowed to say what they want on their doors, living space, and inside their dorm buildings. University of Michigan officials are taking a closer look at this policy due to being under investigation after getting involved in a lawsuit challenging how they should handle language that may be offensive.

Sydney Whack believes hate speech should not be tolerated. "Freedom of speech does not include hate speech of any type," said Whack. She states that it is illogical and unfair to say you can be disrespectful and say hurtful things to others because you have freedom of speech.

Dylan Gilbert, another UM student, agrees. "There is a line between freedom of speech and hate speech," said Gilbert.

This is where the drama begins- Amir Baghdadchi, a UM spokesman for University housing, has officially stirred the pot. He defends UM's policy by saying, "There is no way to define 'hate speech.'"

"Eliminating such speech does nothing to change the culture in which offensive language occurs," said Baghdadchi. He mentions that the best way to go about this is to respond to that 'hate speech,' since we can't control what people say.

UM is the first university that's been sued by Speech First. Speech First's lawsuit challenged UM's policies, including prohibitions on harassment and bullying.

Someone is always watching...

Watch out...

Ever since social media became a big deal, privacy became an even bigger issue. In today's world, anything you post or say on the internet is NOT private, regardless if your account is set to private or public.

Last year, Mark Zuckerberg got himself into a huge uproar when people began to find out that Facebook can track your online activity even when you're not logged in. This can be very spooky for some! Even though Facebook can't listen in on your daily conversations and sells your data to advertisers, they can track your location, your every move on the Web, and what you buy when you're offline.

Facebook's ad business depends on what you like and dislike regarding the advertisements that pop up when your scrolling through your feed on Facebook or shopping online at Target. A feature called Facebook Pixel can snoop on your Web browsing activity even when you are not on Facebook, and it uses the data it gathers to paint a picture of who you are and what you like or dislike.

Facebook can also help advertisers track your "offline conversions," which is an in-store purchase. Although it's not as easy to track these kinds of purchases than those from a Web browser, nonetheless it still helps advertisers see whether or not they are targeting the right audience.

This being said, the internet is a great resource, but it has gotten lots of backlash over the years as a couple of websites have been caught for stalking what you do and say on the Internet. Moreover, it is very important that you are careful about what you post and say on social media or the internet because once you post it, its out there for everyone to see. The last thing you want to happen is Facebook analyzing your data and sending it out because of something you have liked or disliked on your feed.