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The First Ever AU Memes Weekly Hall of Fame. 

Photos are ranked upon the number of shares and likes (as of 5 p.m. on Friday) among photos posted within the last week.

All about the Twitter World

Pinterest, StumbleUpon, Pandora…why are these kind of sites so great? They’re great because they’re personalized to you. They make it easy to find blogs, music, do-it-yourself projects and other stuff that interest you with just logging on to the site.

As an avid pinner and stumbler, I find that, overall, these sites are extremely similar. With the craze in the photo app, Instagram, Pinterest offers the same kind of feeling where photos do the talking. You get quick glances of something that you might be interested in and have the option of clicking on them and accessing the link to find out more. Pinterest also gives you the option of following specific pinners and viewing all of their pins. It also gives you the option to search for specific keywords that might be in the caption that the pinner added.  I feel that this is a very efficient way of browsing because you’re not wasting your time reading the first paragraph of the blog to see if you might enjoy it and you can always view your favorite people’s pins without searching for them.                    

StumbleUpon cuts out the searching part, but doesn’t cut out the reading part. Personally though, I love this. Many times, I’ve stumbled to random blogs that I probably wouldn’t have been interested in enough to click on in Pinterest, but have ended up saving the blog and returning many times. I also feel that StumbleUpon provides a wider and more random range of options to browse whereas Pinterest is directed almost 100% to feminine-type subjects.