Miami Hurricane, March 3, 2014

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Junior Sam Koay was so inspired by the webpage “Humans of New
York” and its idea of sharing stories that hold the power to impact people
that he decided to created a similar one. Koay, who lived in Brunei before
college, created a page called “Humans of Brunei” to emulate that idea.
Collin Li, a junior at UM, created his “Humans of UM”, Facebook page to satisfy
the curiosity everyone has to learn about the people around us.
He thought “Humans of New York” was a great idea to bring to UM to show
the online community all the different personalities on campus.
“I’m still developing my personal goal for this project but I do want to show
that everyone is a human and we all have struggles and stories,” Li said.
During his free time before and after class, Li photographs and interviews stu-dents,
faculty, and bystanders about their goals in life or any advice they may give.
SEE KOAY, PAGE 8
SEE LI, PAGE 8
Discovering the humans of Miami
Vol. 92, Issue 38 | Mar 3 - Mar 5, 2014 THE MIAMI HURRICANE
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UM’s presence on Facebook has been growing,
especially with pages like UMiami Secrets gaining
popularity around school. Recently, students’
Facebook feeds have been taken over by a new kind
of webpage: “Humans of UM,” modeled after the
popular page “Humans of New York,” which was
created by Brandon Stanton in 2010.
If you follow “Humans of UM,” you may have
noticed that there are two different pages by the same
name. Juniors Sam Koay and Collin Li have each
created Facebook accounts within the last two months
in hopes of sharing the stories of the people we meet
around campus. Koay’s page joined Facebook on
Jan. 8 and Li’s on Feb. 3 (although Li formerly had
content on a blog). Since then, they have received
1,194 likes and 2,241 likes, respectively.
Each started the blog with a distinct goal in mind
and, since starting, each has created an identifiable
style. The Miami Hurricane sat down with both Koay
and Li to talk about their individual reasons for starting
and the experiences they’ve each had since the blogs
took off.
FACE BEHIND THE PAGE: Junior Sam Koay created his Humans of
UM webpage on Jan. 8 to share stories about those on campus with the
community.
ANOTHER HUMAN OF UM: Junior Collin Li created the page Feb. 3. The page was cre-ated
to spread awareness of the different personalities that populate campus.
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