Personally I believe social media has become a permanent
fixture in our society. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last ten
years you’ve been introduced used some form of social media. I was first
introduced to social media in the year 2000 my girlfriend was writing a blog
about the troubles of being a teenage girl, in its infancy social media didn’t
seem much more than that to me. Fast forward two years I’m at a local rock show
all of these bands keep telling us to go to their “myspaces”. After being
informed of what this was from a friend I was hooked my band started being
messaged by people wanting me to play shows everywhere. Myspace.com after a
while had become a huge outlet for independent music and the music industry alike
many new bands were signed due there success on social media, independent bands
were able to start making contacts thru this new outlet a far cry from the
phone number list network of the early 90’s. Although myspace gets little
credit these days without it I don’t’ think facebook would be what it is today I
remember in the summer of 2006 so I took a look at it. I scoffed at it “it’s
just myspace with more pictures. And I can’t upload my music”. Another thing
that got me about facebook was it was so restrictive you couldn’t find anyone
cause you couldn’t see there profile unless you were friends with them I thought
it was going to fail…despite my arrogance I kept with It. Today facebook is the
world’s largest social media with claims of
1 billion users worldwide, becoming a central hub to most other social
media outlets such as twitter, linkedin, and redit just to name a few.
Things have come a long way from making your own site on
geocities.com and having a live journal. When it’s all said and done do I think
social media is something that is a fad or is it something that that is going to
stay? I think the answer is yes. In a
world where technology is always changing social media will always have its
place it has opened doors political and socially for many people. Social media
is something that has changed that course of technology cell phones and tablets
are being designed to accommodate it. Some people could not function these days
without the use of social media.
