Social media tweeters

It is cool to keep up with the trends and use social media to the max. But how do some people become so addicted that it consumes their lives?

I was watching the after show of the Real Housewives of Atlanta last Thursday and Andy asked Candi how much she tweets in one day and she replied, "100 or more." And then Andy asked Tyson Beckford the same question and he replied, "I don't." It seems that there are people on one end of the spectrum or the other. There are those who tweet compulsively, I mean, do these people have a life? And then there are those who ask, "Tweet, what is that a bird?"

I am with Tyson on this one. I don't tweet (well, only now because I have to), but be assured, after this class, I am dropping tweeting like a bad habit.

Is social media here to stay?

On the YouTube clip that Tom showed us with all the statistics, it said that all these new forms of social media have "popped" up in the last 6 years.

I am wondering if social media is just a trend, a fad, that is going to come and go? Or is it here to stay and only continue to get bigger and bigger?

Has social media only recently emerged in the past 6 years, or has it always been around obviously just in different forms, but then would that be social media?

I've never been a fan of social media, so if it is a fad then I would not be sad when it goes away.

Social media is everywhere

Social media has developed into a huge new medium that is appearing everywhere. You can't turn a page in a magazine, turn a T.V. channel or pass a billboard without seeing some type of advertisement for checking out a businesses on Twitter, Facebook or Flicker.

How did something that started out so small, end up to take over?

Social media is everywhere and it is just going to get bigger, so get used to all the advertisements and hey, go out and check out things using social media.

What's happening to face-to-face communication

With new forms and ease of social media, it seems that old fashioned face-to-face contact is slowly diminishing.

Texting, twittering, blogs, emails, all these components are taking over traditional forms of communication, and to be honest, it is sad that we are allowing this to happen. What happened to picking up the phone just to say, "hi"? What happened to dropping by someones house just to say, "I was in the neighborhood"? It is all going away due to social media.

I am not personally a fan of social media because it is teaching our kids to be lazy and lose the face-to-face interaction. This could be potentially troublesome for the social interaction of our children.

A life without social media

I am just branching off a thought that I recently Twittered about. Have you ever imagined a world where social media does not exist? Social media has consumed the lives of so many young people that have jumped on the bandwagon over the past decade or so. Social media has its perks, but in the long run, I see it as just another way to preoccupy time. As if video game nation was not bad enough, we have social media nation as well. Social media is not bad, but it is when it consumes your life.