My Reddit Experience

Well some of you may have seen a shout out to reddit on an earlier post that I deleted. I decided to do what redditors call an IAMA which is a discussion forum for unique people or people who have a story to tell and will answer questions.

I decided to start a discussion to answer questions about my religion LDS and maybe clear up a few misconceptions about our culture.

Well lets just say I was online til about 2 am answering around 300 questions, until my thread got kicked off  because it was about religion and I posted it in the wrong spot ( a blessing! I'm done answering questions about polygamy, race and lamanites, and Romney's binder full of women)

I was surprised that I got such nice people, usually on reddit they aren't very friendly towards Christians and even less friendly towards Mormons, we are a joke to them.

My initial feeling was that I wouldn't get to many questions and I would just have a small conversation with a few people but it blew up and at one point I had my scriptures out and trying to confirm or disprove what they were saying about us! It was pretty intense but I'm glad I did it because usually I'm pretty sensitive about that stuff and I needed to stand up and say something.

But I had many people relaying questions and experiences they had had good and bad with LDS members. Some people were disrespective but I tried to keep the mood light and be honest in answering strange requests like taking a picture in my underwear, which of course I did not do.

The whole thing not only helped me understand that most people are either ignorant or don't really care to know the truth about things and are much more comfortable making fun of others and being what we call "trolls" or jerks online. It's just so easy when you sit behind the comfort of your computer screen and say whatever you want, no one can see your face, so nobody can judge you.

I learned the lesson I needed from this experience. It was a moment of an idea that quickly turned into a eye straining evening and even ended with me skyping with a lonely air force man, but I think he was drunk.

Not many pictures today, I actually have been working pretty hard in my darkroom class and taking my time with prints, and Andrew's computer is down so I can't use it to scan and send over here, boo.

But here is what I shot yesterday for the Wrestling team at UVU

These are just artsy shots, the other ones I sent over for the paper. I usually don't post those because I'm worried about technicalities but I'm sure they wouldn't use these.