Reddit & What I Found There

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I have, personally, never used Reddit so I was unsure of what to expect when looking at the website. This blog post includes details of two forums I read and explains the arguments and differences of opinion that are housed within each forum. 

Reddit Forum 1: Marketing and stuff

Is Twitter a viable acquisition Channel for me?

In this form a young business man who is new to the marketing world explains the month-long experiment he held in order to determine if Twitter is indeed a good source for business related followers to reach out. In his experiment he discovered no but many of the comments disagree. Some agree saying that following 3000 twitter users but only gaining 7 email subscribers is not worth any effort at all while others disagree saying that using a bot to do your following and unfollowing has no affect on you, the business man, and therefore is worth it to gain any number of business supporters.

Because I had never used or looked at Reddit before I did not really know what to expect. Because of that I had a lot of trouble finding forums that seemed as if they would contain a disagreement. In this forum the author disagrees with himself as he hypothesized that Twitter would work but doesn't. The main argument, however, lies in the comments, something I was not expecting.

Reddit Forum 2: Marketing and stuff

Torn about job offer.

When scrolling through marketing forums that are all about advertising and how the job works I was surprised to see this forum. This forum is genuinely a woman asking for advice on whether to stick with her current marketing job or switch over to a new job of which she has been offered. 

Once again the debate was not in the forum post (although there is a pros-cons list) but instead is in the comments. The subject of changing jobs, especially in a case where young children, pay changes, and moving states is applicable, is often a very sticky one. The commentators did not take that into consideration when giving advice but instead said what they would do if it was them. The forum author responded to many of the comments but seemed to be frustrated as each comment left out an important aspect of taking this new job. 

Overall, reading each forum gave me a bit of hope. These people are so interested in their jobs, and others jobs, that they are willing to use their free time talking about and advising on it.