When did social media stop being social?
I love this post so much! Social media is changing so much, so fast and we’re caught between keeping up and needing to keep a safe space to be genuinely social!
Originally posted on Slouching towards Thatcham:
Is social media still truly ‘social’?
Does anyone remember when social media was shiny and new? When we were discovering new friends on MySpace? When we all migrated en masse to Facebook so we could ‘poke’ all our existing friends? When Twitter was the new kid on the block?
Those were heady days: days of discovery and possibility, when new friendships were born and relationships forged. Yes, they were fun and frivolous but they also opened new, exciting windows on our world. YouTube democratised entertainment media, creating a host of new stars. Twitter brought us breaking global news – the Hudson river plane crash, Arab Spring – before traditional news outlets were even able to mobilise.
And those days weren’t so long ago. Facebook, YouTube and Twitter were founded in 2004, 2005 and 2006 respectively. Pinterest only celebrated its fifth birthday earlier this year, while Instagram doesn’t turn five until October…
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