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The Cultured Wolverine | Season 2: Episode 4 | Social Entertainment

February 10, 2023

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello and welcome back to the Cultured Wolverine, the arts and culture podcast at Utah Valley University. This week, host Meg McKellar is joined by Natalie Black from the Health and Wellness podcast. Together, they discuss the way that we interact with social media and how it has changed over the years. To keep up […]

UVUSA Insta copycat takes student’s info

September 17, 2021

Reading Time: < 1 minute On Aug. 13, UVUSA announced their “Weeks of Welcome” giveaway on Instagram to celebrate the beginning of the fall semester; shortly after that, a copycat account was created on Instagram that looked exactly like the original. The creator is still unknown and is suspected of trying to steal people’s banking information, according to Jeff Elggren, […]

Facebook buys Instagram

April 16, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes It is a typical day on Facebook. Someone LOLs and liked the latest meme in their newsfeed, their friends are reading the latest trending, and possibly trashy, story on one of the many social readers, and while they begin to type up yet another passive-aggressive Facebook status about their crazy roommate, an Instagram photo pops […]

Facebook Snaps Instagram for $1 Billion

April 12, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes In a move that is likely to have widespread repercussions in the world of social media, Facebook, the social network, has purchased Instagram, a free mobile photo-sharing app for $1 billion.   Instagram has been around for just over a year and a half and is already worth more than most companies today. The popular […]