Social Software a Blessing in Disguise

As the year goes by technology is advancing the same way communication is advancing. Social Software has become a great benefit, with just a click away one can connect with hundreds of friends and family.  According to “Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?” they introduce public spaces and that public spaces have many purposes in social life they allow people to make sense of the social norms that regulate society, they let people learn to express themselves and learn from the reactions of others, and they let people make certain acts or expressions ‘real’ by having witnesses acknowledge them. It is like facebook, instagram, and twitter a few social medias. One posts something and people react by commenting, liking or retweeting the post.  Then unlike this article, in “Gin, Television, and Social Surplus” he says that the internet  is something that people in the media world don’t understand. Media in the 20th century was run as a single race‐‐consumption. How much can we produce? How much can you consume? Can we produce more and you’ll consume more? And the answer to that question has generally been yes. But media is actually a triathlon, it’s three different events. People like to consume, but they also like to produce, and they like to share.  This compares to facebook sharing and twitter retweeting but what makes these things go on is the popularity these networks have. If it works it works, for example we had myspace it was grown out of since everyone went to facebook, they same way is going to happen as years go by the popular the social network is the more people would be on it sharing posts.

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