Social Media: Fad or Revolution?

This video presents alarming statistics about social media. It proved what was already pretty apparent: social media is deeply ingrained in every person's life and is probably not going away any time soon. I thought that the first interesting point it made was that we don't search for the news anymore, it finds us. While I have become accustomed to finding out about stars' deaths and sports teams' wins via Twitter and Facebook, it never really occurred to me that this would have been considered unusual in the past.

I also thought that it was crazy how it took radio 38 years to reach 50 million users, TV 13, Internet four, and the iPod three, yet somehow only 200 million users signed onto Facebook in under a year. Facebook could now become the world's third largest country. I feel as though these facts alone proves how social media is not a passing trend.

This video did a really good job of presenting unknown facts in an interesting way in order to prove its point.