Despite conversations in class and reading Hamlet’s Blackberry, I don’t think evil of social media. Granted it’s put me more on the fence than I’ve ever been, I still think that social media has improved our lives drastically.
I guess I’d say it’s a 50/50 good-bad ratio.
The class lectures have most definitely made me think about social media in a different light. It’s made me notice the violations of privacy, the terrorist group operations based in the U.S. and other things that make me want to close my Mac forever. But there are even more things like the deep interaction of the blogosphere, Flickr, Amazon and a bunch of other things.
Exploring social media has helped to discover those things and much more. It was an eye-opener that helped me to look at social media on a larger scale and outside of my own world of social media.
There are social media tools that I honestly can’t imagine life without now, like Blackberry Messenger, an iPod, Google. Especially Google. Who knows what I’d do without Google.
Yet, I can see where Powers is coming from when he makes mentions of how consumed everyone has become with social media and technology. I, and everyone I know, are guilty of it. We’re missing out on human connection. Texting has replaced calling, Facebook notes and tweets replaced notes, evites replaced actual invites and so much more. I mean, a person can go forever without knowing what a coworker’s handwriting looks like. But it doesn’t seem like a world we can avoid or one that is liable to disappear anytime soon.
Social media will only evolve as time goes on. I have no idea what I’ll be using six months from now, let alone a year. I mean, I remember a time when my digital professor in undergrad made us sign up for Twitter back in 2008. I thought he was so corny for making us posting things from some fluke site with no one on it. Ha. Shows how much I know!
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