All Eyes on the Quad

This is really the first time (minus the little post I made 2 weeks ago) I have ever blogged before. It's kind of strange to  write something that other people can access at anytime but I'll give it a shot. My first topic will be related to the big hype surrounding "All Eyes on the Quad" that occurred yesterday on campus. The first time I heard about it, me and my roommate were watching Dr. Soltz's welcome back video we had just received via email. He ended the video by saying that everyone must watch the quad at 3:15 on September 6. Not long after watching the video, "All Eyes on the Quad" became a common  joke in my apartment. This was mostly because the saying started to pop up everywhere online and around campus. It started with email and soon started to appear on Facebook. The Bloomsburg Facebook page posted a flyer that soon began to circulate. This flyer was very convincing that something epic was going to take place at 3:15. Not long after the initial post, several of my friends started reposting the flyer with questions related to their curiosity. I began to see this flyer everywhere.  So much that I felt the need to be at the quad for whatever was about to happen. With my new twitter account, I also saw tweets relating to the big event that was about to happen. Unfortunately , I was unable to make it to the quad to see all the excitement. Since I felt like I was missing out, I had my roommate text to give me the play by play. Looking back at all this, I'm starting to understand just how much social media is affecting our lives. If it wasn't for email, Facebook, Twitter and texting, I probably would not have cared about what was happening on the quad. But because these things are used so heavily, I was extremely informed which lead to my curiosity. From what I heard, the quad wasn't very exciting.  With that aside, the buildup that was created through social media was pretty much perfect because I heard there was a great turnout to watch the quad at 3:15.