Technologies, Are We too Obsessed with Them?

There are already 130 million visual searches on Pinterest every month, with furniture, home decor and style ideas being the most popular things people are searching BuzzFeed a news and entertainment website used Pinterest to find the hot current trends and get ideas for stories. According to one study, BuzzFeed has witnessed exponential increase traffic through Pinterest. BuzzFeed was getting traffic from Pinterest on a post published over 2 months ago From the top 100 BuzzFeed posts on Pinterest, over 30% of the traffic are to funny

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Besides the elite list of celebrities and famous companies such as Google or The New York Times using social media sites as an outlet to gain customers, one of the main reasons it is so successful is its worldwide and global appeal. People from first and third world countries are aware of it, and statistics show that one in every nine people on Earth is on Facebook, and Twitter is adding up to 500,000 users each day. Search engine giant Google, perhaps the most famous name on the internet has started their own social networking experiment, Google+, which experts have predicted will also become a powerhouse. Everything now a day is marketed, from the water we drink, the food we eat and the clothes we wear. Marketing not only establishes brand recognitio... ... middle of paper ... ...eshare.net/HorizonWatching/social-media-101-social-media-disasters.

Appears that anywhere you look today you will find someone using social media. With advertisements and commercials even billboards Social Media appears to be anywhere you look. Social Media is such a big thing today, according to study provided by the website Socialnomics, individuals devote 700 billion minutes every month on Facebook (statisticbrain.com). Social Media has now become so much better for advertising that it is changing how business is done. Look past the posters in social media sites as LinkedIn and Facebook, there is a craze developing and corporations are finding themselves more so operating with social links for routine business.

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Incorporating social media into customer relationship management (CRM) is the next challenge for enterprises that seek to get closer to their customers. The importance of social media has grown significantly over last decade. By March 2013, Facebook had 1.11 billion users [1], which is followed by Twitter with more than 554.75 million users, as of June 2013 [2]. This explosion of using social media resulted in a change in traditional relationship between business and customers as control of this relationship shifted to the customer, who has power to influence others in his or her social network. As most of customers communicate in social media, it became absolutely necessary for companies to keep up with this trend and follow their customers to new channels.

Telecommuting and teleconferences are just a couple of alternatives to old fashioned face-to-face business. This, and the rise of various social media sites throughout the past decade has shaped the modern business world. Through these sites, people can share interests, opinions, life events, and random day-to-day activities immediately. With the social media movement growing rapidly every day, the amount of information flowing through cyber space has become harder to contain and protect. To many, privacy is now considered a lost concept.

These newsgroups and message boards were the precurso... ... middle of paper ... ... 2009). The History and Evolution of Social Media. Retrieved from http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/the-history-and-evolution-of-social-media/ O’Dell, J. (January 24, 2011). The History of Social Media (Infographic).

Retrived on October 20, 2013 from: http://www.brafton.com/news/survey-social-media-marketers-unprepared-for-brand-criticism Dyer, P. (May 20, 2013). 7 Facebook Marketing Case Studies. Retrieved on October 21, 2013 from: http://socialmediatoday.com/pamdyer/1478771/7-facebook-marketing-case-studies Evans, D. (2008). Social Media Marketing: The Next Generation of Business Engagement. New Jersey, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

In addition, large virtual community of facebook often engages its users particularly young for extended period of time. Thus facebook is also claimed as a time wasting digital tool (King, 2011). However, after operating from February 04, 2004 in its existence of decades facebook has attracted about 1.1 billion users (Wilson, 2014). The facebook has made itself unique in keeping up-to-date on friends lives, in widening social network and in providing active flow of information. These social communicating features have led the facebook gaining rapid popularity to its users.