{"id":84140,"date":"2013-10-07T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=84140"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:12:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:12:44","slug":"freshmonster-makes-friends-the-new-fashioned-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/10\/freshmonster-makes-friends-the-new-fashioned-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshmonster Makes Friends the New-fashioned Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[yframe url=&#039;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FzWoeiRzCEw&#039;]<\/p>\n<p>Making friends isn&#039;t always easy.<\/p>\n<p>When Skip Toumalou &#039;17 (SFA) created a Facebook account on her first day on campus, she was determined to <a href=\"http:\/\/social.uconn.edu\/\">connect with her fellow Huskies<\/a>. But how?<\/p>\n<p>As the bright orange freshmonster pondered over her laptop in the Student Union food court, two classmates were posing for a photo just a few tables away. Skip quickly fabricated a plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rinkity squee grum tibble hoo hoo,&#8221; recalls Toumalou with a wink.<\/p>\n<p>As she bombed dozens of selfies, their subjects tweeted quizzically about the furry interloper. Who was she? Where did she come from? And how could they find her?<\/p>\n<p>With an assist from UConn&#039;s social media community, Skip had made dozens of new friends in a matter of minutes. Now it&#039;s your turn. <a href=\"http:\/\/social.uconn.edu\/\">Jump in<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skip Toumalou &#8217;17 (SFA) was new to UConn and social media. Thanks to some quick thinking and quicker sharing, she&#8217;s now a star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":84313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2234,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[52],"class_list":["post-84140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-university-life","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 06:14:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84140"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107160,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84140\/revisions\/107160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/84313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84140"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=84140"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=84140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}