Reddit

Read ALL ABOUT IT………What’s The News on Reddit

Reddit is a social media platform that allows users to post a variety of news items and links to articles, discussions, and social commentary that will then be voted on by other users. This type of voting is the main feature of this site because the more votes a user item receives the more their information will be displayed for others to see. Ultimately by the “Reddit Community determines which news items get to be seen by more and more users.

Once a user joins Reddit you are not able to change your username once you have registered and everything you post, link or comment on will always be archived under the users’ information. I know personally exploring Reddit I got lost a few times trying to navigate through all of the information because it was become a little overwhelming go from topic to topic. You can easily lose track of time spending so much time on social media site.

According to the Marketer's Guide to Reddit article, it discusses how users can make Reddit “your own” by customizing their front page to reflect interests of their own and the ability to get interesting tidbits of news that may not have been already found on other created sites. This way users are able to use subreddits to categorize their information into various sections depending on the topics posted. The most frequent subreddits will appear across the top of the page top of your front page and allow you to see exactly what you want to see.

Reddit is seen as a fairly large sharing community and targets the larger audiences. There is always excessive traffics and threads incoming on Reddit with all sorts of information constantly. If you are trying to have a successful blog or created subject on Reddit, it is good for some of the following topics:

• Survival and Motivating Stories
• Educational Sites
• Politics
• Food
• Fitness 

In my opinion researching a health organization and information was very hard to locate on Reddit because all of the profiles created are all over the place. It was just so much going on at one time that I got lost in various posts and discussions that were repeatedly occurring every second. If the posts of a organization is not interesting to other users or get voted on by the Reddit Community then it would likely not be publicized as popularly as other articles are. This would make it very difficult for health organizations to reach users and determine which users are really interested in their sites since the usernames are general submissions.

I can only see health organizations using Reddit as a benefit to promote new ideas for raising awareness in a creative way and adding links that are attached to eye catching videos about their organization. If an organization wants to attract users to an appealing event or present people with motivating fitness information to better their health then, I can not see Reddit coming in as a helpful resource to spread the news.

Overall, if your post or topic does get high voting rating then it makes it hard for your information to reach the “Front Page” which is the popular spot for people all across the world to review. Reddit is more a virtual site to connect with other users by posting a lot of information for others people to see and vote on basically like a popularity contest of interesting information posted.