I like to pretend that I don't use social media, when in fact I have a Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram. I admittedly use all three far too often. I remember the first time I had heard of Facebook, in 2008 when it was starting to become more popular among my middle school friends. It took a lot of convincing before my parents finally let me get an account and even then, I wasn't able to use it much. Before that, we all had AIM accounts that we would use to communicate with our friends after school was out.
My first eightish years of social media were spent on dial-up internet (recognize this lovely sound?). Until my junior year of high school, I connected to the internet through our phone line, so I was generally really good at spending only about a half an hour a day on social media. Now I have wifi, a laptop, and a smartphone and the world is literally at my fingertips. This is a blessing and a curse.
This is fantastic for journalists. This way, they are able to get information to the public much easier and much quicker than it has been in past years. With Twitter, journalists are able to get their "stories" out in 140 characters or less. They are able to pass information on easily to the people of a fast-paced world filled with people with shorter and shorter attention spans. It has been proven that people don't even read to the end of an article anymore. So, it's Facebook and Twitter to the rescue, I suppose! Hurray! I am so glad we have a way to make this lack of attention a good and commonplace thing.
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Now, all kidding aside, I do believe that it is quite incredible that journalists do have this easy way of reaching their readers with all of these sites.
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