Back in the day, if you wanted to leave someone a message, all you had at your disposal was a landline answering machine! Nowadays you have at least five media channels to check before you can be sure no one's trying to get in touch with you! 'Has anyone msn'd me? I wonder if I have a Facebook notification? Maybe I should just check Twitter too'. But is that the appeal? The success of Facebook, for instance, relies on the simple notion that people are actually interested in what other people are doing; and with 500 million registered users worldwide they must be onto something?!
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| Is the art of face to face conversation dying out? |
Social media works because everyone wants to be involved with the latest trend; whether that is with their friends or their favourite celebrity. Twitter in particular is seen as an exclusive look into a celebs private life and in turn, is a great PR tool for those celebs to voice their opinions without the guise of media interpretation.
- Seven of the top 20 most visited websites in the world are social-networking sites
- If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between the United States and Indonesia
- There are over 200,000,000 Blogs
- More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook…daily.
Who said the art of conversation was dead, eh? ;-)
xoxo, Gem.
(Stats courtesy of socialnomics.net)
Great article Gemma.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that the 'art of conversation' is not dead, just evolved.
The way we communicate is always evolving, be it when the phone was invented or when electronic mail hit mainstream.
Even social networking itself has evolved from the late 1990s with simple plain text based methods of communication to the new sophisticated, complex, multi-media social systems that interact with us on many different aspects of our personal and professional lives.