The Social Media Revolution

I am writing about the video “social media revolution” by Erik Qualman. It was questioning if the social media revolution was just a fad. It was trying to persuade the audience to believe that it is not. Some of the information presented did a great job of persuading me to believe that it’s not a fad such as the Wikipedia information. Everyone has told me that Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information but this video tells me that “studies show that it’s more accurate than the Encyclopedia Britannica”, and “78% of the articles are non English”. That says a great deal about how the information is evolving in such a fast and efficient manner. Another interesting fact presented in this video Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months. That’s saying that we can form a group of people that’s only smaller to three other countries, China, Indonesia, and the United States, in 9 months. This says that social media has some amazing power able to influence millions of people. An interesting fact is that “the fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year old females. This doesn’t really mean anything to significant more than it is just interesting. It could possibly mean that older females are trying to find a last chance of love before they get to old because so many people these days rely on the internet to find love, just a thought. At the beginning it mentions that “the social media revolution might be the biggest shift sense the industrial revolution” which is a very strong statement, but after watching the video I might have to agree with it.