Will the Social Media Train Ride Derail?

May 1, 2012 by 23 Comments

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I watched a movie with Bruce Willis called Surrogates. Willis is a detective who uncovers a conspiracy to destroy the nation’s dependency on surrogate androids. The film was based loosely on how society lives their lives around technology and how people depend entirely too much on it. With that said I checked my Facebook status twice, answered an email and texted a funny picture of Darth Vader to my cousin in Arizona from my home in New York; I love my phone.

Over the years I have seen different technologies come and go. From Cassettes to Beepers, technology has been rapidly developing in a short period of time. Like the advances in technology, the social media platform has evolved with the times as well. From chat rooms to Facebook, social media has been a part of our lives for over a generation. Like anything good, how long will it last?

Facebook dominates the day to day. A moment can be captured with an iPhone. Business can carry on faster than usual. What will happen next? What is the next step for those within social media? We have managed to gain access into the lives of millions with the push of a button but will it stop there? How long until the lives of others have become a fact on Wikipedia? How long until internet users become completely desensitized to one another.

The future can’t come fast enough for the next big thing. New and improved iPads will be released. The latest trend will rise; leaving sites like Facebook face down in the dirt. Is this what we have come to? Are we the slaves of technology? Will the next generation be skillful in the arts or able to quote Shakespeare without reaching for their iPhones? How long will this runaway train take us? Perhaps Bruce Willis will save us from ourselves just one more time.

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About Jim Vacey

Jim Vacey is an editor and content specialist with an online marketing company in Bohemia NY. Jim is a graduate from Dowling College with a BA in English and History and looks to pursue an MBA in Creative Writing. Jim is now the proud father of his first child, Harley Quinn Vacey. Checkout Jim’s podcast at http://fishbat.com/news/reel-time-fishbat-podcast/ and his blog at http://thisonecomeswithamanual.wordpress.com/.

Comments

  1. Derek Donnelly says:
    May 3, 2012 at 9:26 am

    I guess we all love the latest fads but the things that stay around are the things that enable us to really communicate better with each other or truly be entertained and informed – at least that’s my view. So social will evolve with technology but what that technology is you better ask somone who knows cos i don’t and never will!

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