Social Media Revolution

[Brandon]

Social Media Revolution: Is social media a fad?

 

Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? This video details out social media facts and figures that are hard to ignore. This video is produced by the author of Socialnomics

 

[Big Dan]

I think of social media as an emerging fad. In that it's still a new toy and everyone is jumping on the bandwagon but in a couple more years it will be more common place than it is now and not a whole lot of people will be talking about it.

 

Sort of like when our generation (Brandon & I) went to school. All the cool and/or rich kids had cell phones, they were the coolest thing to have now you'd hard pressed to find a high schooler without a cell phone.

 

New technology hits critical mass when older people start adopting it. I don't know about you but I see a lot of my old teachers on Facebook. :)

[Brandon]

It was actually pagers (that all the cool kids had) when I was a kid, the cell phones looked like this still

 

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[Mike]

I think social networking has a long way to go in the maturation process. But I also think it is happening, albeit slowly. I am in that fastest-growing Facebook age group, for instance. But I am already nauseated with all the game players and now find myself logging into Facebook once or twice a week, rather than twice a day. I don't give a rat's rectum who got a high score in a game or who found a dead muskrat on their farm. On the other hand, it's rare for me to not have TweetDeck running on my desktop. As soon as they sort how to have farms, aquariums and Christmas trees on Twitter, I suspect that will be me losing interest.

 

As I said, I think SN is experiencing some growing pains. But I do believe the next 18-24 months will amaze us at how much more we will all be connected.

 

Dan, I can remember in high school when four function calculators were finally being made smaller than one of our textbooks. And battery-operated, no less! ;) And yes, I said four function.

[Big Dan]

I think social networking has a long way to go in the maturation process. But I also think it is happening, albeit slowly. I am in that fastest-growing Facebook age group, for instance. But I am already nauseated with all the game players and now find myself logging into Facebook once or twice a week, rather than twice a day. I don't give a rat's rectum who got a high score in a game or who found a dead muskrat on their farm. On the other hand, it's rare for me to not have TweetDeck running on my desktop. As soon as they sort how to have farms, aquariums and Christmas trees on Twitter, I suspect that will be me losing interest.

 

As I said, I think SN is experiencing some growing pains. But I do believe the next 18-24 months will amaze us at how much more we will all be connected.

 

Dan, I can remember in high school when four function calculators were finally being made smaller than one of our textbooks. And battery-operated, no less! ;) And yes, I said four function.

Poor Mike you had to do advanced calculations by hand. :D I couldn't of gotten through Algebra 1 without my scientific calculator once I learned how to use to the parenthesis function it was a humongous time saver. My math teacher and I would always argue because I'd never show my work on homework. I explained that since I always aced the weekly quizzes where we couldn't use calculators I must know what I'm doing and the calculator was only a time saver for ungraded homework. ;)

 

Back when you were a kid, Calculators were probably a big thing I betcha not many kids had one. Nowadays they're so common place that no one ever talks about them and some states (NY inclued) allow calculator use on part of the state math exams.