Let's face it. The Internet is growing faster and faster. We either stay behind in the stone age, or we get on this ride and hold on tight. Why is everyone making a big fuss over this new trend, "social media," and who is doing it?
The answer to who is making a fuss is simply the ones that fear and do not want change in life. Usually these people are literal religious groups or the minority of baby boomers that simply do not want or care to understand the technology age. If one will look back at the beginning of the industrial age, people fussed over how machines were taking over their jobs.
Later on in this new industrial age, jobs popped up. It created more jobs then it took away. Now that the industrial age is being replaced by the technology age, people are once again fearing. Change is a good thing. In life, one is either going forwards or backwards. Fear in something that is not well understood causes things to go backwards.
A good example is our fuel consumption. We have been using oil for a good many years now. It is time to start using something new, and better. We have the technology to create and use better fuel then crude oil. We must change in this regard before we run out of gasoline and other crude oil by products.
We have the technology to do a lot more then replace the fuel we use on a day-to-day basis. The biggest technical wonder is how we communicate with others. I wonder if Alexander Graham Bell could ever realize the potential of his telephone invention could have be turned into a world wide service that we call the Internet? We do more communicating online, then we do on the phone. Through video cameras we can see the person we are talking to as well as them seeing us. We also can send text, pictures, and files that would take forever in our conventional mail system.
From the first newspaper, television news programs, and other media systems before the Internet, we had no choice in what we heard or read. The news was a slanted as it is today. Now we have more choices and options through "social media." Information can be sent out a lot quicker. We can choose we and what we take in on any subject. If we do not like what we read, see, or hear, we can go to another source ever so quickly. The competition has grown dramatically.
That is why so many news programs fear the Internet. They do not want to have their customers leave due to how they present the news. With today's technology, the term "monopoly" and "proprietary" has no meaning any more. There is no limit to how things can be shared online, and that ideology is changing at an alarming rate. There is nothing we cannot do on the Internet. It growing so fast that science fiction would not be able to keep up.
Spite all the wining and fussing over how it is replacing "traditional media," social media is here to stay. Like I said, "We either stay behind, or we get on board." It is that simply.
Blessed Be to Isis, and you.
Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name: Brandon Bowers
