Its Not That Tricky to Wiki

Long gone are the days when we would read a manual or some other formally written instructions to learn how to do a task. Remember those "For Dummies" how-to books? Surely you've seen one at some point in your local bookstore or library. These days that's considered old school learning. Now you can just pull out your phone, search what it is you're trying to do then, boom, there's a single wikiHow page with steps detailed to the T on how to do that exact thing you were trying to do. Wow, isn't technology great? Who would've thought we would come this far.

With so many how-to pages to search from, where does one even get started? With all of the many great ideas on wikiHow, there are some other how-to's that may come in handy at one point or another:

How To Do Heatless Bantu Knots

Bantu knots, shmantu knots. How many times have you tried to do this protective style only for it to come out looking like a Jerri curl from the 80's or you look like you stepped right out of a Shirley Temple film? No more looking sad looking curls. This tutorial is here to save you and will show you how to properly twist your hair so your curls come with that bounce to the ounce! This may not be the tutorial you asked for, but it's one most people need. You're welcome.

How To Make Tuscan Chicken Dip

Half the population discovered (buffalo) chicken wing dip & went mad for the last year, with many adding their own flair to the recipe. At this point you've probably seen a million ways to make the popular dish but wait just a second.  This recipe for tuscan chicken dip will have you feeling quite fancy & upper echelon because you've elevated from that buffalo dip phase. Throw some crackers & cilantro on a plate that even Food Network would envy. Impress your friends with this recipe & wear your plushest robe for emphasis.

How to Create a Shadowbox

Regular picture frames are so 1996. That's what you usually see hanging in grandma's living room with fond pictures from your childhood inside. But it's the new decade & we're in the age of getting crafty so we're taking saving memories to a whole different level. Shadow boxes are like 3D pictures so say screw that old picture frame and throw it in the garbage. This tutorial will show you how to make a shadowbox that you can turn into whatever you can imagine.

Now give yourself a pat on the back because you're on your way to learning some new things! After you get into these tutorials, you will be impressed with how things came out. These new ideas will have you looking right with your hair slayed, while eating a new fancy dish and you can make a keepsake to remember it all while bragging later. Who in this day doesnt like to get crafty?

Social Media Taking Over for '09 & the new Decade

Remember the days that your parents warned you not to talk to strangers? Yet here we are in 2020 on the internet talking to strangers. Hoping for views. And internet streaming is higher than ever before. (Netflix & Chill anyone?) We've gone from battling for that Top 5 space in your friends'  Myspace list to trying to attain hundreds of thousands of followers on our Instagram pages. The irony right?

There's so much freedom in social media it seems that our awareness in real life seems to be alot lower. Think about it, we dont think about it when we post our decadent meals,  tag the fancy restaurant we died to try out, or when we take that oh so necessary off guard picture while walking into the place that we've made ourselves a literal target. With popular Netflix shows like "You" paving the way, it wouldnt be hard for a wanna be Joe to start peering at you & your nice meal from the distance.
But thanks to social media we've got this connectivity to people around the world that we've never had before. We're able to find out news or hear about events around the globe in almost in instant instead of just catching a 4 minute or so segment on the local channel 4 news. That Manchester bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in England is a good example. Social media flooded with grief soon after the news hit about the incident. Many celebrities and fans of Grande offered words of prayer and words of comfort for the families affected at the time.

Recently, hip hop star Eminem dropped his new album, tastefully titled "Music to Get Murdered By", and boy did social media have a fit about it. On the album is a track named "Unaccomidating" that references the bombing in one of the verses. So you've got the recipe for disaster here: 1) Tragic worldy event 2) America's sweetheart (Grande obviously) and 3) Eminem saying something outlandish (again). Its only natural that the Twitter-verse responded negatively to the tactless line. It's just funny how Eminem has always been considered a controversial artist since the 90s and we usually just brush it off because that's just Marshal being Marshal. The man gave us 8 mile! But now that social media is so prominent in today's society, his public conflicts are being discussed globally.

This new social media driven world is so strange. You can go live on Instagram or Periscope, even track your friends using the map on Snapchat. Social media is evolving so quickly, every year theres a new app to connect to people. You can only imagine what's going to come next. At this point you can bet the world is probably going to turn into a real life Sims game, if we aren't at that point already. The world will be our computer and you can be sure the aliens are going to be having a grand old time playing us for sure.