Vine becomes an addiction
Students admit to their obsessions of the six-second videos
Junior Ment Morris models different shots for a Vine video, moving across the screen to create movement in each frame. Vines are short clips, shot in the app by pressing on the screen and then releasing to create a string of movements that fit together.
The hallways of campus circulate with talk, laughter, and filming of the six-second clips known as Vines shared through twitter and the smartphone app.
Vines are short, smartphone-filmed videos made simply by touching and releasing the screen to create a string of movements. These films can be recorded for six consecutive seconds as well as in small increments to create humor or illusion.
The multi billion-dollar company, Twitter, bought the rising social media company in 2012 just as it began to gain worldwide popularity.
Vine obsessions spread throughout campus, sometimes taking hours a week out of students’ schedules.
“They’re funny and entertaining and it’s a cool type of social media,” senior Anna Orlowski said. “I spend 45 minutes to an hour watching vines a day before going to sleep.”
Vine has proven itself to be popular to both sexes, a quality in which some social media sites fail.
“Vines are great because people are creative and fun and the way they make the vides are really funny and unusual. I have made two videos and they are just about me recording the SpongeBob theme song when SpongeBob plays the flute,” freshman Jesse Shaw said. “Yup, I’m an addict I watch 30 minutes of Vine a day.”
Some students who participate in after school activities still find time to be addicts.
“I love them because I can be on there for hours and I can relate to many of them and they make me laugh all the time,” junior Rylee Barrios said. “I spend about 1 hour and 30 minutes a day watching Vines, mostly during breaks in cheer practice.”
Many “viners” like to make videos with friends and family.
“I made a Vine once about me and my friends going through a closet and jumping out the other side yelling, “Where is Narnia,’” Barrios said.
Humans are not the only Vine stars. Some people use their furry friends to get laughs and “re-vines”.
“I made two vines about me making my dog do funny tricks like playing dead and shaking my hand,” Orlowski said.
Some hardly know or care about Vines though many love them, some are crazy for them, and some are just plain addicts.
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