There are multiple things that completely surprised or took me aback by this video.
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I think the most surprising things are how quickly social media has spread and what demographic it is spreading to. One out of eight couples in the U.S. have met through social media. That might have been the most surprising statistic to me. I have come in contact with people who have met over the Internet, but I would have never though it was as widespread as the video made it out to be.
Social media has changed the way we write in that we write shorter and use abbreviations. I always kind of considered text messaging to be a part of social media, and Twitter is the text messaging of social media.
Twitter has changed the way we write and interact with one another because every is fast on Twitter. We now expect everything to be fast. We need to get through lines at the amusement park fast. We need to through fast-food lines as quick as possible. This is all an effect of social media.
We are faster with social media. We communicate faster with social media. And we expect everything to be just as fast as social media.
Maybe I shouldn’t have been so surprised about social media effecting couples’ relationships. Some of my relationships have been affected by Facebook. Some of them have been strengthened by the use of social media. I have met people through Facebook (which is the social media site I use most often).
I have had a very personal connection with social media throughout my young life.
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I like your example of how social media has changed the way we write with short abbreviations now like texting. It just shows how our world has evolved to this fast pace society and our ways of writing has adapted to that change as well.
ReplyDeleteI agree that social media has changed the speed at what we communicate. I find it extremely frustrating waiting in lines for anything because I am so used to getting information so fast with computers and phones.
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