Tag: Games
Week 2: Social Media
by CharlesJP on Jan.09, 2010, under Uncategorized
Project 52 – Week 2
In the past few years, “social media” has gained dominance online as more and more younger people join those who have been plugged in for years. But what is social media, and why have I avoided it so much?
Back in the day I was all over the internet… Before Google was as huge and my homepage was the basic HTML layout of Yahoo. I played on the awesome java applet of Yahoo Games and was on IRC constantly. However as things evolved, somehow I didn’t see all of those new things nessesary. You could call those things the Web 2.0 change, but I don’t want to get that idea mixed in with social media.
The big one at first (that I saw) was Myspace.. and I avoided it like a plague. Why would someone need something this slow to post their thoughts and make friends? I finally succumbed and made an account, as everyone I knew kept asking me for my own myspace page. And then came Facebook. I can’t be found there… Not from any hidden privacy things (Is that possible there?) but because I don’t have an account.. and I refuse to create one.
But then there is Twitter and somehow, all of its magic. Granted, I haven’t even had a twitter account for almost 2 years.. still late to the party. But somehow, its not like the others. Its simple, and easy. It has streamlined what I think Myspace or Facebook could be. Sure, there are plenty of spammers, but I have encountered that everywhere.. Even those Yahoo games applets And from this I see what everyone else got from those other sites.
So in the future I plan on being proactive in social media, or whatever comes next.. Not on the sidelines watching it and wondering how other people benefit from it. I have already started by getting a Gowalla account and the associated iPhone app. And hopefully, the more people I follow on Twitter, the faster I can get into the next big social media site… But whats after social media?
