The Rise Of Social Media

Since the 1990’s the internet has been a source of information, communication and entertainment. Since then the internet has exploded into a whole different world and most people living in the free world have some sort of access to it. This explosion has lead to everything from getting the most up-to-date information concerning the news or the funniest meme to date. Some stuck up old people believe that “old-fashioned” way of communication is dying and letter writing is in fact, dead. However tech savvy millennials, who basically took the internet and made it into what it is today, and this growing up Generation Z has taken the tools the internet has to offer and is ruling the world with this. Because of social media people are networking,

Twitter is one of the world’s most used social media platforms to find out information as it happens. Even school districts use social media to announce snow days or other important matters. Almost if not all news networks have multiple social media in order to get new news out as quickly as possible. Aside from urgent news, other news is also easily accessible on social media. Snapchat updated so certain online news sources can post articles on their page on Snapchat. The average consumer that uses Snapchat can subscribe to these pages completely free of cost and look at the articles first on the app. Youtube has grown into a social media platform that has many different facets to pass along information. Theres videos about how to do the perfect look for prom or how to restore a wooden table to its former glory. Theres videos on Youtube that help kids understand their math homework or help them understand the Gettysburg Address. Getting information is faster than ever through social media and there is no excuse to not know current

The concept of “going viral” has been a much more attainable status because of the rise of social media. Because of social media videos of cats are everywhere and flourishing, funny prank videos are everywhere, videos of babies talking are through the roof. On social media people can laugh at the stupidity of others. Now more than ever people have the confidence to share their thoughts on social media no matter how outlandish or misguided they are. There is a whole audience for pages that strictly make fun of spelling mistakes and text messages from former lovers. Now sitting in the bathroom is never boring when you have whole timeline to look