Social Media, is it a Good Thing?

Social Media is one of the biggest growing platforms of media. Everyone from elders to young children are using their phones to post on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. They are even overpassing news tv shows like CNN and Fox on how people get their news. It is amazing how technology has changed things in the past ten years. With this social media becoming such a huge thing people have had to do studies on it to learn how people are using it. With this research you get people like Guy Kawasaki and Peg Fitzpatrick who then write books like The Art of Social Media.

People can learn a lot from these books like how to use social media the write way and some tips on making your profile even better. Most of the first few chapters to me were common sense because it is how to use your profile the right way and some website to find cool articles to share with people. They give you tips how to make your profile visually look great and when writing articles what to do to make it pop out to people. They also give you different websites like Alltop and NPR to get some well written articles. You can then share these articles on social media to make your profile look professional.

Social media is taking over our world and some people would say they are even getting addicted to social media. To me I think social media is a beautiful thing, for the first time ever we can have friends from across the world and keep in touch with them. We had an exchange student in high school from Holland and we added each other on Instagram. To this day we comment on each other’s pictures and check up with each other every few months. It is amazing that he can be across the world and we can still talk like he is just 15 minutes away. For those people that feel addicted to social media all I can say is learn how to use it the proper way and maybe you do need a break every couple months, but it’s not a bad thing. Well that’s all I have to say about that, social media can be great, people just need to learn to use it the right way.