Mehrad's Blog

If you thought The Beatles were popular, think again (RIP John Lennon and happy 70th birthday). For the last few years the world has been experiencing rapid changes that were unheard of even 10 years ago. The impact of social media is changing the world we live and advancements are being made by the second.

What is happening?

Facebook and Twitter have taken over the world. They way we look at the world and the way the world is functioning revolves around the realm of social media. Ashton Kutcher and Ellen DeGeneres have more followers on Twitter than the combined population of Ireland, Norway, and Panama. Scary stuff. The fact that half the material we are learning in university will be outdated in a few years is a mind-bender of epic proportions. I am now posting one of the 200,000,000 plus blog posts existing in the world today, meaning all these posts are contributing their valuable/worthless opinions online about the world we live in. 

What does it mean?

How we  experience the world is changing and is moving in a direction that can be predicted by anyone at the moment. In fact, with the social media, we can say that the world is experiencing us. The information we are interested in is no longer needed to be pursued by the everyday consumer. Instead, it finds its way into our lives and we embrace it with open arms. And the way it finds us is through the computer, our laptops, smartphones, and who knows what device will be thought of in the near future.

It is safe to assume that at this rate we might surpass our social media capacity intake. Who knows what technology will come up with next. Will we be ready for it? We have been up to now. I guess we will all have to wait and see.

Social Media:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8