The Goods of Social Media
We live in an iWorld. If you just take a look around campus, everyone is either on their phone or their laptop typing away with them all somehow interconnected in a parallel universe. Nowadays, social media and technology has become a prominent part of our everyday lives with using Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, the iPod and the iPhone. Social media provides a mean for information, entertainment and persuasion. In the past decade alone, social media has been responsible for the introduction of new ideas and inventions, the start of revolutions against tyrant governments, and the increase of human to human interaction. Social media has become a pathway used to communicate. It is the way we let others know what’s on our minds, a way to figure out what’s on other people’s minds and ultimately a way to share ideas in an interactive manner. Facebook and Twitter are effortlessly accessible; whether on your laptop or your smart phone, messages can be sent out within seconds. And within a couple of more seconds, replies, favorites, or even “retweets” start flooding in. This creates an interactive dynamic where people can interconnect, link and transfer information between one another. The ease of use of social […]
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