Sunday, July 15, 2012

HUMN240-1-4-3


            There are many mis-conceptions and conceptions that come with social media. What started off as a thing for teens grew to be an eco structure for the college like and adults to now you can follow on twitter your favorite brand of cereal to your favorite musician.  Using these sites varies person to person depending on the purpose of the usage. With this option of personal or business it comes with certain unspoken guidelines. For instance if you have a business Facebook ‘Like’ page  you don’t want to post personal things that are not supportive of the page itself. People assess one another by their friend count, type of post they make, pictures they use, groups they belong to, to even who they follow on twitter. It’s all circular theory at best.

        As far as rituals is concerned I highly doubt or at least I am hoping there isn’t any Facebook or Twitter rituals like on your child’s 12th birthday they activate the usage. However I will say there is routine, like email some people check Facebook first thing in morning or before they go to bed at night. We all develop our own routine on usage but I don’t think anyone has a ritual that would be pretty scary considering the source. Social networking is a big part of the world now almost everyone has some form or type of iteration to be connected with others virtually. Some may call it bandwagon theory or even evolution; but for the most part people want to use the tools.  I take away from this how rapid times and thing change and that nothing is guaranteed forever. I look forward to seeing what else we incorporate in life.

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