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Originally Posted by PostScript
Not inconsiderable benefits you mention actually, but still doesn't fit with me Jay. As far as I'm concerned social media should only be the preserve of gossipy 12 year old Californian girls, and the occasional nascent political movement.
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Oh don't worry, I agree. I visit my page once a day at most and generally treat it like my personal emails, I check it and leave it.
There's very little social media has given the world that it didn't already have. The most amazing thing that it's done is probably cloud noise and increasing the speed with which information travels. As you rightly point out regarding political movements, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya - without social media I doubt whether they would have seen the same things occurring.
Information travels at lightning speed on twitter, it's incredible to watch when the hivemind gets focused on one particular event, thousands of people actively spreading information to different sources around the web.
Social media tends to get hold of the news before the news does these days.
Is social media necessary? No. Is it a bad thing? I'm undecided on it, we don't
need it but it has it's uses. The forum members that use couch surfer(or whatever it was called) would probably attest to that. PoF and the various dating sites are also technically social media sites.