Addicted to Social Media

Following the introduction of Twitter’s micro-blogging concept, in the early part of 2009; the Internet, as we know it, has changed in ways unexpected. Popularized by mainstream media publications, such as Fox News, the social networking favoritism  rapidly bloomed into a interconnected global explosion; perfect for a company operating on limited funding. “What are you doing,” now a household association, branded the Internet with the preconceived notion of 140 characters or less. Rapid growth took control, crashing servers at times, giving each user a place on the Internet to become his or her own media..

While Twitter excels in one sided communicative information, the limitation of 140 characters fails to produce extensive social interactions; giving way to social networking. Mediums such as FriendFriend, Tumblr, Digg, Youtube, Pandora, and hundreds more picked up in the area of communication — the area Twitter left off. These social networks support the human need for social interaction through means of the Internet, connecting a single user to a globally interconnected society. Right before our eyes, the Internet transformations are being discovered as more and more people move to create unique user names and log into a network of interest. Supporting the democratization of knowledge, user-generated content (UGC) have brought together groups of people, each sharing similar interests, and put them into a single medium for established communication.

Not only a social media journalist, I recently received the chance to work in the field of social media; where as before I was writing on the topic. This was the breaking point, turning my thirst for knowledge into a rabid addiction. Working from both a personal and work account, I am kept quite busy when it comes to the Internet; a positive focus from chronic pain and terminal illness. My interests vast; I am primary interested in the establishment of healthy, positive, and mature communication. A current member of over 135 social networks, each unique to itself; on each searching for, finding, maintaining, and building an positive reward system — putting me on the map within a twenty-first social media revolution.

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