now this is something i can talk about for days on end.
i LOVE social media. and i am way good at it. is it possible to have social media be one of those talents discussed in the doctrine & covenants?? cause...pretty sure i have been blessed with the divine gift of face-stalking.
there is so much i can say about social media. i could talk about how:
-social media is the number one way people connect with each other. forget actually talking in person. old school.......
-ashton kutcher has more followers on twitter than there are people in switzerland.
-If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between the United States and Indonesia (note that Facebook is now creeping up – recently announced 300 million users)
-If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour
-There are over 200,000,000 Blogs
-What happens in Vegas stays on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook…
these are just some fun facts. there are many more out there that are simply MOND BLOWING. check out:
http://socialnomics.net/2009/08/11/statistics-show-social-media-is-bigger-than-you-think/
do it now.
social media is HUUUUUUMONGOUS. seriously people, think about it. 5 years ago, no one had a facebook relationship for everyone to gossip over. people found out their roommates were engaged because they told them, not because they accidentally saw it on facebook before she had time to call her roommate back. (no........i'm not bitter........). people had no idea what joe jonas was eating for breakfast each morning because no one followed him and twitter because he had no twitter account and neither did anyone else. no one uploaded hilarious videos onto youtube so their grandma across the country could see it. no one cared about sharing pictures on photobucket or flickr, they just developed them down at the costco and mailed out copies to friends and families.
TIMES HAVE CHANGED. i am the biggest guru for social media. yes, it is a colossal waste of my time and every bad grade i have ever received has not been because i am dumb or not a good student, but rather because i was up late on facebook or twitter or youtube. it's so sad. this blog post was actually a healthy awakening for me, because i thought to myself as i started:
"social media is big....but i don't think it really influence me or changes my life THAT much. it's more of just something i do when i am bored."
after further contemplation and research, i decided that i am so into social media. i mean, seriously, look at this. IT IS PATHETIC: please take a gander at how pitiful my life is.
youtube:
twitter:
photobucket:
linkedin:
facebook:
blog:
bah hahah. embarrassing??? kind of. but maybe i shouldn't be embarrassed that i have an account, profile picture, short description of myself, and at least 2 followers on practically every social media outlet invented.
maybe it's a good thing!!!
this is a nice segway into the purpose of this blog post: SOCIAL MEDIA AND JOURNALISM.
in my broadcast journalism class, we are required to do a web version of out news stories each week. we do this because most people don't get the news now at 5 o'clock on their couches while having a nice chat with their wife and kids. they get their news on their iphones. they get it on their emails. they get it whenever they are on their computers during a lunch break at work. if we did not evolve with the news/website relationship then we would all soon be out of business.
i put all my news stories on youtube because if i have a prayer of getting hired at a news station after graduation then i want potential employers to be able to readily access my stories on youtube. i have a blog where i post my thoughts and feelings and pictures for anyone who wants to get to know me or know anything about my life can read about it. i would be perfectly happy for future employers to check out my blog. in fact, i recently ordered MOO cards. ever heard of them?? they are trendy little business cards you can hand out. on the website where you design your own MOO cards, they encourage us to put our blogs on there......cool huh?? that is the kind of world we are living in. the social media we choose to be involved in is now intertwined into WHO we are. i am whatever is on my blog, or whatever is on my facebook, or whatever is said on my twitter.
this past summer, i worked at the american red cross for their PR department. i was in charge of social media. i worked tirelessly on their twitter account and facebook page, because i realized that it could make a world of difference for us. i started following a bunch of other red cross chapters and local news reporters and columnist in las vegas (where i was working), and pretty soon we had hundreds of followers. we also got lots of facebook requests once we started publicizing our page. we put our news releases, press releases, event information, and helpful facts about water safety or fire safety on our pages. this was a great example to me about how the future of journalism relies on social media. we had SO MUCH more interest in what we were doing once we used social media. we received more donations and got more volunteers. the old ladies who i worked with who had never heard of facebook were blown away.
i believe that social media is the world's most fun method of advertising and contacting people. journalims and social media is a beautful combination. now more people can voice opinions about news stories or debated topics. there is a never-eding amount of space to publish whatever we want. we are not restricted to a 30 minute newscast or a 30 page news paper. if i wanted to, i could go and write a 593 page essay on any topic i want, publish it on my blog, and wait for the comments to come from weird people who actually had time to read it. that is the beauty of journalism and social media. i have said it once, and i will say it again: SOCIAL MEDIA IS MAKING EVERYONE IN THE WORLD A JOURNALIST.
i love it.
i am not embarassed i have about a trillion social media windows currently open on my computer. i am not embarassed that it took my twice as long as it should have to write this blog post because i kept getting distracted on facebook, or because i was busy uploading my news story for channel 11 news this week on youtube and emailing it to my parents. NO SHAME. that is the world we live in. they even made a movie about it, and i am going to watch it. so there.
so, face-stalkers, blog-stalkers, and fellow tweeters. welcome to the new world. and mom, if you are reading this, get a facebook. it's only a matter of time.
watch this video for a jaw-dropping experience regarding social media:
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