Erik Qualmam suggests that the Social Media today is, indeed, a fad. He suggests that this could be the next biggest shift since the industrial revolution. Many people are surrounded by the “new,” and our older generation is beginning to accept it. Facebook, one of the many ways of communication between people, would be the fourth largest country because of its population size. 1.5 million Pieces of content are shared on Facebook daily. People have become so used to their electronic devises that they forget what actually goes on it. “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas?” Erik Qualmam appears to think otherwise. Social Media on the internet, TV, cell phones, exc. are filled with advertisements. 78% of the people who buy from these advertisements do it because of a peer recommendation while only 14% of people acually trust them. The internet has become more and more popular. Hulu has grown from 63 million streams in April 2008 to 373 streams in April 2009. Others are no longer searching for the news. The news will find others. Erik Qualmam also suggests that people will no longer need to search for products and services. They will find others through using Social Media. This Social Media is a fundamental shift in our economy. Are we ready?
My own view is that Social Media is going to be the biggest shift since the industrial revolution. Although Erik Qualmam appears to be implying this through “eye-opening” facts, seeming to scare people so they agree, I must agree. Using the internet, I notice how many advertisements I see. Logging onto Facebook, I looking by my side scrolling bar only to find advertisements for Netbook, movie rentals, and that wacky “Randomize Cartoon Yourself” add. Just by going on my laptop, I will go click the internet to find that the news is all over my home page. In my opinion, it’s a scary thought that the news will find me before I find it. Even when I am not looking for any news, I will hear it over the Radio, or see it in an advertisement. For example: I logged into my yahoo email account only to see a side advertisement about Tiger Woods cheating on his wife. I don’t watch the news all that often, but it has seemed to have found me before I could get to it. I do, however, disagree when Eric Qualmam suggests that people will no longer need to search for products and services and that they will find them. In the direction that Social Media is going, I do not believe that it will go that far. It might reach as far as getting more of those telephone calls that everyone hates, but certainly not as far as mind reading, knowing exactly what every person wants. Overall, I do in fact believe that our economy is going through a fundamental shift and that more and more are embracing it. My mom, who has never been an expert on computers, has just created a Facebook. She is now telling many of her friends how neat it is to be able to chat and catch up with others. Am I ready for all people to embrace this change? I believe I am.
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You said, "Social Media is going to be the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution." To back this claim up you explain that the news will eventually find us even though we are not looking for it. You suggest that when we go on the Internet, we have no clue what we will find such as you finding the Tiger Woods controversy. The older generation is also starting to grip this new technology in order to communicate and share information.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your explanation because technology has fought through and is going to give us the news one way or another. Figuring that there are more than 1.5 million people on Facebook is an astouding number because it shows how many of us in the world have the Internet. The older generation is also familiarizing themselves with this new technology as well in order to communicate and "blend in" with the crowd.