social media.

these are two small words defined by facebook, twitter and blogs and have a huge impact on our world today.

who uses social media? once a month? once a week? once a day? several times a day? uses multiple types of social medias? only uses social media to communicate or follow the news?

well, lets just say that according to figures from in-stat, there are more social networking accounts than there are actual people in the world.

surprising? i hope not. the use of social media is taking our world by storm. especially our generation. it is how we get our news, communicate, research, keep in touch and network.

it is both a blessing and a curse (for those who put up embarrassing pictures of themselves on facebook that forever exist in the virtual world).

so i only found it fitting to ask, via facebook status, how many of my "friends" basically live through social media sites.

i got 38 responses within 1 hour! if that doesn't tell you the answer, i don't know what would!

everyone who answered emphasized the importance social media in their lives. facebook status updates and following news sources like nytimes and huffpost on twitter were the ways they found out about the earthquake in japan or the death of osama bin laden.

the use of social sites are really beginning to take over the ways we gather information. some say (like my grandfather) it is just a sign of the times and will pass, some hope it will pass (like my mother who dreads learning to type on a keyboard) however, i have an incredibly strong belief that it is and will be our future.

cnn agrees with me on that.
where americans get their news.