Comments on KK's blog

People are exposed to too much information nowadays and therefore, social media becomes an important role in people gathering information efficiently. Posts on social media, such as facebook and vine, are short and direct, which means that people do not spend much of their time reading information as what they would spend on television or newspaper. It could be said that social medias trivialize people's time. Furthermore, in order to capture more people's attention, issues that posted by social medias often associated with videos and imagines, which create convenience for people to collect information in a efficient way. I agree with KK's point that social media is one of the good ways to find motivation and entertainment.

So, what are things posted on social media? Take facebook as an example, people post selfies of themselves to record their daily lives as well as interesting things that they see or happen on them. Just as what KK said, she loved to watch animals doing silly things. I am obsessed with collecting funny animal pictures and videos as well. 

The video above is a compilation of funny moments of cats and I burst out laughing with my friends when we watched it. I am curious about why animals make people laugh easily. Comparing to people watching funny videos of human beings, they would only laugh at certain points. However, when people are watching videos of animals, they generally start to giggle as soon as they see the animals. So, what is the exact reason behind this phenomenon?

On one hand, people laugh at animals because of their appearance. There is no doubt that we look different from animals. Especially dogs and cats, they are born with fluffy body and bright eyes. In this way, laughter are created due to the adorability from people to those animals. Therefore, it is easy for people to laugh when these animals creating some interesting facial expression, even if they are simply staring at you. About 40% of funny animal videos consist of their unique facial expression.

On the other hand, people create laughter as animals do what they are not supposed to do and do not do what they are expected. For example, when a dog is wearing a costume and glasses, people find it extremely hilarious because how could a dog dress like a human. Another example is that animals are expected to be very happy when their masters feed them. It would make people chuckle if at this moment, a cat reluctantly looks at its food and slams it away.