Mind your own noodles 
I know it’s late and everything to blog about it. Haha. Well it’s better late than never right?
Just want to share some of my sentiments on promoting the viral video. The video was so fun to make and I think Nash, Mina and James enjoyed eating spicy korean noodles.
The rule is that you cannot drink water while eating the noodles as fast as you can. After the shoot, I don’t think any of them drank water. :l After presenting the video in class where we had to watch it two times, we were tasked to promote the video and make it viral. (watch the video if you like) JUST CLICK ON THE TITLE
Even if the internet offers us the advantage of reaching many people at once, it was hard to initiate the spread of the viral video. Many people viewed the link out of pure curiosity about what a viral video is (which helped a lot). When we thought of the concept of our viral video, we had our friends and families and friends of friends in mind. We thought of what would make them watch the viral video. Some of the reasons why family members watch the video was because of the part each one took, friends want to help you as well as look at what you’ve been doing this past century, and friends of friends sometimes view it because of curiosity. One comment of my friend caught my attention, he was asking if the link was safe. After I assured him that that was done for school and not for anything else. I even proved to him that I was really Nancy. He explained and shared his experience about this video link that caused some of his files to disappear. Actually he wasn’t the only one that asked me that question, four of my friends did.
So after that experience, I didn’t just give out links with titles. I gave a synopsis of what the video was all about. My groupmates and I also provided catchy titles everytime we posted the links and the short description. I appreciate the help of Caloocan High School students I knew from last semesters requirement (PR campaign). This activity gave every student of oc 152 a chance to reconnect with people from highschool and elementary. And it also gave students the wider idea of what the internet (social networking sites were widely used) can do to connect people.
spam has made a lot of netizens doubtful of links, so good thing your group clarified the issue with some and even made an effort to provide a synopsis.
this also tells you that relationships are important in new social media. when you send the link to a person with whom you don’t have regular conversations online, you are a spam suspect, right?