Flyers Prevail

Facebook, twitter, email, and text messaging are the marketing tools of this era. To get the word out quickly about an event, college students have turned to Facebook to promote everything from a sports game to raising money for a charity. But in an era of social media networking, one relic of the past still endures – the college campus bulletin board.
In every building on campus there are old fashion corkboards full of flyers promoting events on campus, but does anyone pay attention to the overload of event information?
Kristen Rodriguez, a sophomore at The University of Tampa said, “I am in the Spring Dance Concert and I walked into the mailroom yesterday, and the floor was covered in our flyers. Nobody wanted them.” Although Rodriguez was disappointed the flyers were on the ground, she is Vice President of Communications for the sorority Alpha Chi Omega, and uses email as her main means of communication with the chapter.

But other student’s would much rather receive a flyer than a Facebook alert. Kaitlinn Kerney, a junior at UT, said, “People need to stop using Facebook to talk about what events are going on every night, you don’t need a Facebook message to tell you what’s happening. It drives me insane now. I would much rather just read a flyer on my own time when I want”.

The over abundance of Facebook messages has become a turn off for other students as well. Freshman, Kyle Jackson said, “If someone just blows up my Facebook wall with event information, I would be very annoyed. The purpose of Facebook has completely changed its form.”

So the verdict is in, flyers are still useful and Facebook messages are annoying. Who would of thought in this generation that students would pay more attention to a piece of paper than to a computer screen.