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Social Studies: January 8, 2016

Here are the top five social media happenings this week.

1. Twitter has introduced “conversational ads.” http://bit.ly/1O9uZCD
2. Samsung won the #CES2016 conversation. http://on.wsj.com/1Oh6y3X
3. A puddle in the U.K. was all the rage. http://bit.ly/1O9vrRc
4. An 8-year-old challenged Hasbro over their decision to leave out Rey in new games. http://bit.ly/1K3CuHf
5. The Tatums broke the Internet. http://cnn.it/1ZSNO21

Our favorite Instagram photo of the week comes from @kylewolfe_, with this insanely gorgeous shot from Alameda Point.

Manual Exposure|f/9|20″|ISO200|Sony A7|Sony 28mm f/2|B + W 10 stop circular ND filter|I woke up this morning at 4:00am and could not for the life of me convince my mind to fall back asleep. I had photography on my brain, and that’s a very hard thing to keep quite. I had dreams about this location since I had just driven by it a few days ago. I kept telling myself “I haven’t taken a decent sunrise picture where the sun is actually visible in ages, go take one!”. One of the weirdest dreams I’ve had in a while, but I followed it and it was totally worth it. I’ve always heard about how vivid dreams could lead to an amazing painting or piece of literature, but never a photograph… Odd… Here’s to an art filled 2016, chase your visions and maybe they’ll lead somewhere!

A photo posted by Kyle Wolfe (@kylewolfe_) on

We also saw this making its rounds on Facebook earlier this week, and couldn’t stop watching.

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Check back next week for more social media happenings, Instagram photos, wacky tweets, and more!