What a shame this is made to be such a big deal, that its social contact!! Pretty soon people won’t have face to face social skills anymore.Eventually the art of talking will be no more, and eventually evolution can do away with the voice box, and change our fingers into pointy little things to allow us to hit the buttons easily. Your twitter device will come complete with a coffee maker and a dildo. Is it the easier distribution of goods or the easier distribution of advertising into our heads? I personally HATE this stuff, because I HATE the uncalled for advertising that ends up on it. Eventually we will be so sensitised to the advertising we will ignore it. I for one am not intersted in services finding me, I already hate being cold called by phone. How many people list their phone numbers on the don’t call list, wait till we can list out computers blackberries on the don’t call, don’t advertise list!!! Then lets see how powerful a medium it is!!!!

Who read the list of stats before the watched the video?
Of those, who realised the video repeated the list of stats below it?
Of those, who just read the list?

You’re probably generation X or older. Just a guess.

I’d like to have seen credit given too.

Where are these figures coming from? Not so convinced…

Seria a Social Media o novo grande marco desde a Revolução Industrial? Bom, Eric Qualman da Socialnomics acha que sim! Esse é mais um video que mostra de uma forma visual as últimas estatísticas da media social. Mesmo sendo números que refletem mais a…

Tom Hawks II
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Nothing is free. Someone is paying the cost for these services to exist. When they find a profitable business model, I’ll be more heady about social media. Until that point, “fad” may be appropriate. If Facebook decides to charge, good buy. I wouldn’t pay for the service. I use it every day, but it’s not worth paying for…

Don’t believe me? Let’s make a bet on YouTube. Eventually, it won’t be free. Ads aren’t working. It’s losing $500 million a year. Nobody (including its owner Google) wants to continue with a business model like that…

Thanks for sharing

Good one.

The short answer is that human beings are inherently social in nature. The internet has accelerated and facilitated a higher level of person to person interaction than has ever been known before. In that respect, it may be appropriate to term it a revolution, albeit a revolution of technology better enabling human beings to be exactly that: human.

Social media and interaction, while advancing human endeavour, is simultaneously bringing us back to our fundamental roots, all that which makes us human: our desire to interact, to connect one to the other. In my view, every step forward serves to bring us back to who and what we truly are; unique individuals with a desire to be a part of the larger community.

That is what Social Media is to me.

cheers, Marc