The Revolutionary Social Media

Social media is currently one of the most used, talked about, underrated and misunderstood 'things' of the 21st century. I just know that somewhere out there people are busting their brains undertaking some serious studies about the psychological, political and economic impact of social media. I am no expert but I just have to join in on the social media bandwagon by sharing my top 5 observations about the revolutionary Social Media!

1. Legitimizes Stalking
Before social media, 'stalking' was one of those taboo words and certainly no normal person would want to be caught stalking or be referred to as a stalker or worse admit to stalking! These days people have no qualms about it. It's just what we (sorry, they) do! Send someone a friend request, wait for them to accept, once they accept don't even say 'Hey, how're u doing? Thanks for the add'...psssh. Just get straight to work browsing though their pictures and scrolling down their walls. If you're lucky they'll like something everybody else likes or copy and paste the last person who commented on anything. They are so in your face with it. Come on people it's call social media for a reason, at least say something meaningful once in a while.

2. Makes Everyone a News Reporter
Who needs to watch local news, the radio or *gasp* read the local paper when we are all employed to the FNN (Facebook News Network) and the TNW (Twitter News Wire) as news anchors, field reporters, weather forecasters, sports commentators extraordinaire? Lol. Seriously, we know we are doing or jobs well when the local news now looks to our tweets, statuses, walls and likes for news headlines :)

3. Could Make You an Expert
If you really calculate the time spent reading particular tweets, statuses and wall posts by particular people on specific topics it would be the equivalent of a liberal arts course/degree. Depending on which brand's or content curator's page you visit most frequently, at the end of the year you could walk away being an expert in music, cuisine, wealth management, politics, the possibilities are endless.

4. Puts 'Ideas' in Your Head
I'm not talking about the annoying (sorry informational) ads here. Follow me carefully...there is a particular social media site that has some secret matchmaking agenda. I won't go calling any names around here, but when you login and you see a long list of  people 'Similar to you'? It begs the question...'And who are you to determine that Twitter?' This is also helpful in the sense that it takes all the guess work out of who to connect with, #genius and this brings me to my last point...

5. Invented Hash Tag Abuse
Ok. I really wanted to have my five serious special observations to share, but I don't know what more I could say except....... 'Does anybody know what really happened to Google Wave?' #justasking #theyjustupanddisappeared #beenaskingforalongtimenow #seriously :D