What is your perception of social media, do you think it is a fad or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?

January 20, 2013 at 7:35pm

Social media is something we can't run away from. Something we can't control, unless it's absolutely necessary but, nine times out of ten it's never controlled by the greater masses. Lastly, social media has become a very big part of our culture and we've embrace it with open arms. Looking at it from a college student's point of view social media is by far the most helpful when it comes down to interacting with people, searching the web for interesting topics and I've been using it constantly throughout my program, so technically it's part of my everyday life. The negative affect of social media is that it can become really distracting and what I've come to realize over the last few years is that people take advantage of it. Social media is supposed to keep everyone happy, or at least content with what's going  on in other parts of the world. I personally don't mind the social media but, I'm sure looking at it from someone who may actually have a problem with it might find it offensive and unnecessary. 

In answering the second part of this question, "Do you think it is a fad or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?" I had to first ask myself what does "fad" mean? So I googled it and what came up was "An intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, esp. one that is short-lived; a craze". Social media is far from fad because it's constantly evolving and it will never be a brief trend. So, to answer this question, I think social media is the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution because we're a technological era that will forever need social media.