Brandon Mendelson

Brandon "B.J." Mendelson is the author of the book, "Social Media Is Bullshit" from St. Martin's Press and just spent the past three years of his life living out of hotel rooms across America. Brandon has previously contributed to The New York Observer, Mashable, The Wall Street Journal, and more places than he can honestly remember. He has also been featured on CNN, CNBC, TechCrunch, the CBC, Yahoo! News, and MSNBC, as well as quoted in outlets such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Reuters, Psychology Today, and other publications. Currently, Brandon is getting ready for graduate school at the University at Buffalo.

Latest from Brandon Mendelson

How this one element from gaming will prepare you for success

This is part two in the “How To Be (Internet) Famous” series. You can check out the previous installment here. One of the most important things you need to know about how to be (Internet) famous, or market anything successfully, can be learned from gaming. I came across this fact because I used to be ...

How to be (Internet) famous, Part 1

In March, I made my second appearance at the Associated Collegiate Press Conference. This is the only conference I do for free. Any other conference? Well as they said in Goodfellas, “Fuck you, pay me.” I do the ACP events freely because it gives me a chance to interact with college students, which I’ve always ...