Social Media - Just a fad...or a Revolutionary Shift?

Social Media, in my opinion can be described as a way to communicate as well as discover ways to keep in touch and connected via technology.
This is a revolutionary shift just because of how advanced our world has become. There is no way this is just a 'fad' due to the fact that social media is always changing and something new comes around.

Let's go back a decade or so...

What started out small has grown enormously. When I was younger it was Myspace that was the biggest trend and the 'must have' website to be a part of. A few years later, the biggest game changer and still one of the most popular sites was created. This of course being so familiar as it is - Facebook.
Facebook has become the most popular form of communication for friends, and family. This site is always changing; for example when this first came around, there was no such thing as a 'like' button, or 'video message', it was simply 'send friend request' and 'what's on your mind?'
Flash forward 2 years to 2006, Twitter has now became the next hit of the 'Social Media' world and still rising. This site is a simple way to discover what your favourite celebrity is up too or just to post a 'tweet' as to what is going on in your own life and share that to your followers.
Just a few more popular ones to add that are widely popular: YouTube, Instagram, Pintrest and the list just goes on.

Adding in, I found this link as I was searching around and thought this was an interesting read and suited this topic: http://www.businessinsider.com/a-brief-history-of-social-media-2011-7

In the end, Social Media will always be growing, will always be changing. If this is what has become of Social Media within the past 15 years, who knows how much more this will advance and change the forms of communication between one another.

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