Virtual Goods, are they worth it?

Let me start this post off by saying i’m frugal. Well, frugal might be too nice of a word; i’m cheap. To me, the idea of buying “virtual goods” seems a little silly. Granted, I’ve never bought any myself, so I have no real life experience or testimony to offer. 

For a class assignment I have to use a prepaid Zynga card. which is for buying content for online games such as Farmville or Cityville. To be honest, hearing that I had to buy a card and play games for this assignment didn’t leave me very enthused. Sorry to anyone who loves these games, they’re just not my forte. Also, I personally don’t see the point in paying out-of-pocket for virtual goods and content when there are free versions available. So what if you can’t get pink tractor? There are other, free, options for harvesting your crops. 

Bona's Big Twitter Presence

Venturing Outside the Bona Bubble

During this past month tweets from die-hard Bonnies fans have blown up my twitter feed. With both the men’s and women’s teams defying expectations and reaching the NCAA tournament, Bonnies fans have rallied to show their support in 140 characters or less. Everyday countless new tweets about St. Bonaventure University’s basketball programs and March Madness have accounted for just about every other tweet on my feed. Reading all of these tweets always fill my soul to the brim with Bona Pride. For such a small school to have so many supporters is amazing, and that support is what inspired me to blog about the realization that tiny St. Bonaventure University has a huge Twitter presence, outperforming larger schools in the twitterverse.

Type “St. Bonaventure University” into the search bar on Twitter and you’ll be amazed to see how many tweets and people results are shown. Many campus organizations have Twitter accounts with hundreds, if not thousands, of followers. For the consideration of the amount of space I have and the amount of time I can keep readers interested, I decided to focus on four of our proud university’s associated accounts: St. Bonaventure U, St. Bonaventure Athletics, SBU JMC, and Bona’s Notice Board.