Social Media

Is social media a fad? In my opinion I believe that social media is definitely not a fad. A fad is a trend, and I don’t see social media ever going out of style. Social media is certainly the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution. People use social media to interact and communicate with people over the web on a daily basis. Social media includes: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Skype, Flickr, MySpace, MyBlogLog, Digg and many more. Personally, I use Facebook and Twitter every single day, I can even say I’m obsessed with them. I spend over 10 hours a day checking and rechecking my Facebook newsfeed for recent updates such as status changes and newly uploaded photos. I’m a little more obsessed with Twitter. I check my Twitter right when I wake up, and I continue checking it all throughout the day until I go to bed, and I send at least 5 tweets a day. It only took Facebook 9 months to reach over 100 million users. To me that is absolutely crazy to have reached that many people in that short period of time. Facebook even tops Google for weekly web searches and has so many users that if it was a country, it would be the third largest in the World. Our society uses social media on a daily basis, and that is where we all get our news now. If I want to see the weather for the day, I don’t turn on my TV or radio; I go on my phone, go on my Twitter and see what CP24 tweeted about the weather for the day. I think it’s simply amazing how far social media has come in such a short period of time. I can’t even imagine what social media is going to be like in the future, and how much we are all going to rely on it.

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