Social WEdia: An Intertwined Love Affair with Social Media

The use of Social Media has become so common that it has been integrated into our Social Norm. Even the way we speak has changed and the English language is conforming to words such as unfriending, retweeting, and a wide range of other terminology that may surprise the unknowing anti-cyber space spectator.

We have come to accept that our mom and dad’s are using the same form of entertainment as us; and have watched the evolution of spaces, cluttered in glitter and auto-played tunes such as MySpace – to days of blue and white with an array of accessibilities and faces with the “you have no reason to leave” Facebook look.

In this new aged society that is ever populating itself online, us friendly humans have made a declaration of saving each other’s cattle in Farmville, conforming to 140 characters of “What should I have for breakfast? I am thinking eggs and bacon or some jelly on toast…no maybe some cereal or perhaps an English muffin ..Help!” and watching videos of a cat playing a keyboard.

For us salivating socialite’s we yearn for two way conversations – a way to be acknowledged of our online identity. Gone are the days of hiding under an alias and asking “a/s/l?” We have opened ourselves up to the notion that sharing is caring and are even making our offline worlds collide with our online ones.

It is an amazing transformation of communication that has aligned the world just so, that we can tolerate our neighbor, friend a person based on their personality and not on a picture and allow the Internet to invade our personal stash of information. Social Media has shown that kindness can be shared amongst a stranger in a tweet, possibly the same one which whom we would never speak to on the street. Celebrities will now interact with us common folk and other Media’s rush to earn their dollar while information on Social Network’s are given away free.

No longer do we fret over a friend updating their status while we eat, or fear that connecting with another human online soul will make us out to be a creepy old man wearing boxers in his mother’s basement. We are from all walks of life and have birthed a nation of conversationalists, which has taken a global effort, perhaps the only global collaboration we may see in our lifetime.

So I raise my mouse to yours and celebrate our ever-growing project of human interaction, to erasing unheard messages, liking shared wisdom and answering what I should have for breakfast. This is an intertwined love affair with Social Media, for no matter where we roam; we will have access to our online home.

Cheers to all you social savvy inventors who contribute to social networks of the Webisphere, you have taken the me out of Social Media and turned it upside down; and have arisen what I like to call, Social WEdia.

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