Social Media

Social media sites like twitter and Facebook allow people to communicate with all their friends by sharing photos, stories, and even playing games together. Facebook, which was recently sent to the big screen by the hit movie, is the leading social media site. Some sites like Digg and Reddit are for sharing news stories, funny photos, and video clips by matters of voting up and down. Thumbs up sends the story to the top, thumbs down sends the story to the bottom. These sites make millions of dollars a year and are some of the most viewed pages on the internet. The funny thing is that the content on these pages are of higher quality than most television shows and news shows. The internet is truly a place to be for multimedia. Hundreds of people are posting videos online. My computer has replaced the television.

Different people use the sites for different reasons--some just like to check up on their friends updates, some like to post their own stories. This was popularized back in the mid 2000's but has fallen wayside. Most people will probably admit "I don't even use facebook anymore." The internet is always changing and with it comes waves of changes. Web 2.0 is when social media became the new trend of communication and being, 2.5 came and now 3.0 is on it's way. YouTube even has ads before every video which makes it almost television like. Car ads and more are displayed for 15-30 seconds. Life on the internet changes like life on earth.