Final Post

How is it that so many people find out about certain events? Is it the fliers, word of mouth or the internet? There are always booth inside or outside the CUB promotion some sort of event or a service. Lately a great majority are giving away free items to have you like their Facebook page or group. They will even have laptops set up so that people can sign into their Facebooks right there. The social media known as Facebook has become such a huge thing that almost all events at WSU use it in some way. Whether it be to create an event and have people of that event invite their friends and those friends invite even more, or to simply put the information of the event on the Class of 2011, 2012... group pages. To be honest it seems like sometimes that using fliers is almost completely obsolete to use to invite people to events. I see or get invited to more events on Facebook compared to the amount of fliers I see for other events. It seems that in order to have a successful event nowadays some form of social media is needed to get it to the right people. I am not trying to say that fliers and word f mouth do not help, but they seem to be less important than being able to advertise an event on Facebook. An example, is that there was recently a Dodgeball tournament. Initially I first noticed when they had a booth set up in the CUB. Though just doing my daily routine I glanced at the booth and continued walking. A few days later I started seeing many advertising post about it posted in several groups that I was apart of. Then I received an invite to the event from a friend who was helping host the event. It wasn't until the event hit Facebook that I felt intrigued enough to look at the event. After seeing how many people said they were going I decided to join. In the end though my team bailed due to homework issues. The experience proved to me that the best advertisement that a group can really have is through Facebook. Due to the news of the event can get to many more people and at a much faster pace. I know that during my first year at WSU I rarely knew of any events unless someone posted about it on Facebook. This was caused because I lived in Stephenson where the event board seem to be rarely updated and all my class were in Todd. So I never saw any of the events that groups were handing out fliers or had booths at the CUB. My routine consisted of going to Todd, South Side then back to the dorms. So if it wasn't for Facebook my friends and I would most likely have missed many different events that the people had.