Hey everyone,
I was busy reading up on my "feature news story" candidate's wiki page and came across a very interesting set of YouTube videos titled, "Did You Know..?". Each of the videos in the series focus on a specific topic. The information presented is mind-boggling. (Yes, I said it, Mind...BOGGLING). Here is one that I found on Social Media.
For example, here is a fact found in the video... "More video was uploaded to YouTube in the last two months than if ABC, NBC, and CBS had been airing new content 24/7/365 since 1948. (Which was when ABC started broadcasting)."
That is amazing. The degree to which social media has influenced and really, shaped, our lives is phenominal. Really, unpresedented by any other means of communication to any other age demographic throughout history.
Another intersting one, "10 Million, the number of unique visitors ABC, NBC, and CBS get every month, collectively. These businesses have been around for a combined 200 years. 250 Million, the number of unique visitors myspace.com, YouTube, and facebook get every month, collectively. None of these sites existed 6 years ago."
This just shows how socially aware and responsive our generation has become. Myself, being one who is semi-torn between keeping up with the times and holding some sort of self preservation, cannot decide whether this is a shift for the better or worse. Check out the video and see for yourself.
Here is another one that is pretty interesting as well. Did You Know 3.0.
Enjoy!
Robin
1 comment:
Thanks for that awesome link! From that video to the one Gee showed us in class, I am just boggled by the statistics on how social media and the internet has grown and became such an immense part of our society. I know I have said this before, but it really makes me wonder what our society is headed to in terms of how we retrieve data, receive news, and communicate in general.
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