Social media has completely dominated the way we communicate as well as live. For instance, if we go out for a night out on the town with friends, it used to be that you take along your camera, snap a few pictures then take the film to be developed the next day and you usually had to wait a couple of days before the film was processed in order to be able to share the memories you and your friends created with others. That whole process has completely changed due to social media sites. Now all you have to do is upload the pictures you just took with smart phone and upload them to Facebook and/or Twitter and they are instantly shared. Facebook and Twitter have made it accessible for virtually anything to be seen immediately within minutes of capturing the photo.
Thanks to Facebook, if a user has their information about themselves public on their page, we are able to find out religion, political views, what their hobbies are, if they are in a relationship and if they are then it displays who they are in a relationship with. We are able to find out tons of personal information about someone by simply typing that person’s name in the search option on a website. Facebook has recently added a feature that allows its user to tag their location meaning if you are at Target shopping, you can go to Facebook on your mobile device, click the “location” option and it will tag and show not only that you are at Target, but exactly which Target and it even comes along with a map so people who are friends with you on Facebook can locate you. I don’t know about what you think, but the fact that someone can see where another person is without even calling to ask, is pretty astonishing. Sometimes it completely amazes me just how accessible our information is to others.
It has been documented that 1 in 8 marriages started by the two spouses meeting on social networks! Connecting with someone over the internet has become extremely popular. I think it has something to do with the fact that we don’t have to leave the comfort of our home and we have the ability to find out more information about someone before we meet them so it’s less of a gamble when and if we decide to meet up with that person. It has gotten to the point where we, as society, don’t even have to leave our houses in order to meet our potential life partner! When the internet was invented I am certain that no one ever thought that relationships and marriages would develop through it!
To show you just how popular being a part of a social network is, I’m going to leave you with two facts that I found pretty astounding: Generation Y has already outnumbers the amount of baby boomers in 2010, and 96% of that generation is a part of some kind of social media networking site.
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