Blogging and Microblogging

Blogging and Microblogging

What is your perception of social media, do you think it is a fad or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?

A fad is a trend, like a fashion trend. Will it die? My answer…. NO it won’t “die” and social media is no fad
Social media is here to stay but will evolve into things we haven't yet imagined! just look at what's happened in a year.

“The technology gets interesting when it gets boring,” commented Stephen Collins in response to a thought-provoking question by Craig Thomler. Hyping social media is a fad. Using social media is not. “At that point, we can start focusing on what we’re doing and with who.”

Thomler and Michael Rubin share statistics about a video making the rounds that illustrates why social media is the latest impetus for a technological revolution: This video is the same one that jordanne has on WebCT.

I'm truly amazed by the numbers of users of these social media tools if you'd like. The way the people are using them is unbelievable whereever I go for example when I'm on the bus, every one either texting or calling or listening to music. I do have a cell phone and mp3 but I'm not obsessed, I call when its necessary or text. I cannot listen to music when I'm studying. It's only me I guess. 

The tools are very important for the people to promote their businesses,important for feed back inorder to respond to customer inquiries, surveys, applying for jobs, and most importantly is to keep us connected with the rest of the world. Now adays the news come to us we dont search for the news anymore. we choose what we watch , we choose who do we wanna connect with.

But what doesn't let me get too involved or go too deep is the privacy aspect of it. for example, people can track your locations with one click on the facebook, It is the choice of a person but still too much information to share.

Brian Solis believes that “we are the last generation to know privacy as it was and from now on, it will have to be taught. We are entering a new era of publicness or publicy, where we are solely responsible for creating and defining our online persona.”

It is great to have such important social media resources but also we should know how to use them to our benefit.
you can watch this video I found on you tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLd9q88ohUs&feature=player_detailpage

New student

Hi everyone:
I registered in the course today. I'm just testing to see if everything I did is right, I have never blogged before so Im not really sure what I'm doing.