#Socmeddiscuss … I am sure that you are wondering what on earth this hashtag means and when on earth you have been seeing it so much on my twitter lately! If you noticed that on Tuesday this particular hashtag seemed to be appearing much more in my tweets and hopefully you took some time to check in on #socmeddiscuss

On Tuesday my social media class had what we called “the class cloud” where we essentially spent the entire class tweeting with the hashtag #socmeddiscuss in the hopes that we would be able to get the hashtag to trend in the Greater Salt Lake Area! (I live in Logan, Utah by the) Before and during the class we were sending tweets to our friends and to class mates as well as public figures like Ellen Degeneres and Rihanna seeing if maybe we could get others outside the classroom to join in!

My favorite moment was when we decided that we wanted to take a group selfie shot like Ellen did at the Oscars!

-That's me on the right!

I then tweeted at Ellen asking is she could deliver us some pizza because we were all really hungry!

I found that it was very interesting to be conversing with people in the same room as me over twitter rather than just talking face to face! IT was sort of like when people in the same room text each other, like my mom, except that our conversations where public instead of private!

We tweeted the hashtag enough the get it to appear on the map but not enough to have it trend in the Greater Salt Lake Area! I was curious to know how many people even just at USU could see out conversations and where wondering what on earth was going on! I believe that we tried to get the Aggie Life twitter in on it but no one responded! I would love to try this again but with more people so that we can maybe get whatever it is we are tweeting about trending! I am guessing that we would need to have a topic that is probably more widely understood than #socmeddiscuss which really would only make sense to people in my class!

So next time you see my twitter feed blow up with tweets that have random hashtags in them be sure to check it out! Who knows maybe next time we will get it trending!