Throughout reading the book Social Media Freaks: Digital Identity in the Network Society nothing really stuck out to me stats wise until I got into the section on online use on homophobic words. It was a project called NoHomophobes and it tracks the amount of times the terms faggot, so gay, no homo, and dyke were used on Twitter. The concept of this is very cool to me because it will show you how many times these words were said today, last week, and all time. In one day the word faggot was used 12,981 times, in a week it was said 112,851 times and in a two year span it had been said 29,550,670 times.
The reason I think this concept is so cool is for the whole reason they are showing the stats behind how many times it’s said in a day is because it’s marketing to people that it’s overused and that it’s not needed in today’s society. People use it so often evidently and the point of showing those numbers to everyone is to make an alarm go off in there head if they have been saying it to stop saying it because they are apart of society’s problem surrounding sexuality and the mistreatment of people in the LGBTQ community. I feel as if they have gotten their message to people clearly as it has won multiple awards and also has tracked in over millions of people to the site. The website is still up and running and it has shown progress because if you look in a five year span the word faggot has been said 10 million times which is still a lot but compared to their two year span where it was said 29 million times.