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So this blog is a little much for me. I think it's because there's A LOT of information in this one and it looks a bit disorganized. I felt a little overwhelmed while reading the articles. The good thing is that most of the articles are non too tech geeky for me and I was able to understand and relate to some of the posts. 

The first article on this blog caught my eye. The title was this: "Study: Hispanic Smartphone Owners Want Mobile Shopping Apps To Be Social." Now, this caught my eye because 1) I'm Hispanic and 2) I have a smartphone user! So naturally, I was interested in what this study was about. It claims that Hispanic users prefer to shop with friends and family members instead of shopping by themselves. I think I agree with this! Nowadays whenever I do go shopping it's usually by myself. This is mainly because one of us has to stay and watch our little 1-year-old gremlin. If my husband and I find ourselves at the mall, we don't end up buying much because we're so focused on entertaining her! So when I do go shopping by myself, I usually end up feeling odd and a little out of place. I think this is because I miss having that second person with me! 

The main point of this article is that mobile shopping apps currently ignore users that want more of a social aspect to shopping! I wonder how this affects online mobile shopping apps like Amazon, Overstock,  and eBay? We shall see! You can find the full article here.

Overall, I somewhat enjoyed this blog but I feel it's lacking in style - I think it's too plain looking and disorganized to keep me interested....Side note, it took FOREVER to load in my browser!


- Gina