Erin Swearingen

Any more in the United States, it is sad to say that Police do not have the same force as they used to. They are said to be brutal, not understanding and acting out without reason because of the few that have ruined it for everyone else.  Something I like to do as a person is to defy the stereotypes, I say this because I am a 20-year-old college woman who is in a sorority. What was the first thing that popped in your mind when you read that? Probably partying, being a “typical white girl” or anything else that society hates when it comes to a sorority . However, I am proud to say I am President of my local Chapter Kappa Delta, am in a National Leadership Honors Society and Spanish club. I am Majoring in Communications and Minoring in Spanish and Marketing and absolutely love it. In Kappa Delta, we have raised over $10,000 last semester for our Philanthropic efforts of Prevent Child Abuse America. All our girls have leadership positions and or GPA is above the USU all women’s a...

For an Online Reputation Assignment, I was asked to look into the life of Libby Furner. Libby Furner is a 20-year-old student that is currently living in Logan, Utah and is a Junior at Utah State University. She has many interests such as comedy, books and even playing the Ukulele. When I first started to look up Libby’s information, I couldn’t find anything specific on Google, other than this picture when I went to Google images.  When I clicked on the Google image that was provided, it took me to Libby’s Twitter account . On her Twitter account, I found a good amount of information. I saw that she was a Harry Potter fan , by the kinds of posts and content that she was re-tweeting. Another thing I learned about Libby from her Twitter page was that she was very sassy, and liked to re-tweet funny videos, pictures, memes etc. She is verbal of her thoughts, views, and opinions on political issues and re-tweets/supports people like Hillary Clinton , Zendaya and Chelse...

Who knew that deleting comments on social media could cause such a frenzy? Paypal brought this to fruition when they were recognized by Forbes for being such a great company. Paypal took this recognition and posted about it on the internet, and it was interpreted as gloating about their success. People then started posting negative comments about the company and Paypal deleted them because they thought it was the right thing to do in the moment. This was a huge mistake that they made because it ended up making people even more mad about the situation and created more and more negativity for the company as a whole. Here some outsider feedback about how Paypal handled this situation.  Something that Paypal could have done was respond more positively to the comments and take it as a learning experience instead of deleting comments. Here are 8 tips to deal with negative social media . From personal experience of running numerous social media channels for numerous companie...