For a group project in my Journalism Ethics course, we have to research the new social media site, Storify. I can't exactly figure out if I like it or not yet.
The site takes updates from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and even Instagram and puts them all together in one place. If you search a trending topic, you'll find endless posts from various social media sites covering that specific news event.
A couple of issues I have with Storify are credibility and redundancy. Of course, the average Internet surfer will trust something they see that CNN posted, but how can someone with the username iHateFeds be trustworthy? Also, many of the posts that appear under the same news event are incredibly repetitive. I find myself getting annoyed at the site because it's hard to find new information on a certain topic.
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