As you’re scrolling through your newsfeed on Facebook, you notice something.
Either everyone is suddenly a model, just purchased a professional camera or just really wants more likes on that profile picture.
A likely reason, though, is that employers are studying Facebook profiles almost as much as résumés.
Facebook, then, is not the ideal place to be writing inside jokes with your friends or sharing goofy, unprofessional articles.
Two college students from Wellesley College, a women’s college in Massachusetts, found a solution to this problem of wanting to share humor but not having an appropriate platform.
They created CliqBit, an app designed only for humor.
Like most social media apps, you can find your friends and share images with them.
You can share brief messages and funny images that you may have found or are your own.
Instagram is starting to look similar to Facebook too, in terms of its polished appearance.
While all posts are not professionally taken photos, teens and college students must remember to keep it tame, because if a form of social media might reflect a person in any negative way, people can see that. And though there are privacy settings, you just never know who is looking.
This could be anyone from parents of friends to potential employers.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell if a person is kidding in an Instagram caption or if the comment left by a roommate is sarcastic or just plain rude.
However, as I have been scrolling lately, I’ve noticed another trend in those 2-by-2 squares as well.
This new trend usually involves pictures of thoughts, ideas or complaints that I relate to so much I wonder how an account with millions of followers entered my brain and articulated a thought I had just that morning.
Some of these accounts that share sentiments I swear are mine might also include ridiculous images.
No matter what, they’re humorous.
Once again, though, social media has become such a prevalent part of our society that we are forced to basically brand ourselves on our profiles.
It is hard to tell what might be perceived as acceptable or not.
Furthermore, there can be confusion when we combine humor and words on a screen.
CliqBit is exclusively for humor, so there is less room for confusion as to whether a post is serious or just a joke.
You also have the option of putting a picture up for only 24 hours before it disappears.
Utilize that however you like.
The app is a place for friends to be funny and not serious at all.
It is not another medium to advertise your life and brand yourself to get a job.
Social media was created for people to connect, and CliqBit is an app to help people connect through their humor.
It is free in the App Store, and you can follow your friends, comment on their pictures and post ridiculous images that made you laugh.
Grayson can be reached at intrigue@ThePlainsman.com
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