Comments on: Is social media a fad? Over 631,953 people have seen this have you? http://darylhill.com/2009/09/is-social-media-a-fad-over-631953-people-have-seen-this-have-you/ "If you want things to speed up - slow down." my soul Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:34:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joe Burwick http://darylhill.com/2009/09/is-social-media-a-fad-over-631953-people-have-seen-this-have-you/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Joe Burwick Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:34:14 +0000 http://darylhill.com/?p=228#comment-52 I agree with what Rob said. It isn't a fad, but it is just one of the many new innovations we have seen relating to the internet in the past 30 years. I work extensively in the Research and Development Tax Credit and it has allowed me to connect my peers across the nations like I have never done before. It has opened up further an already open client base here in the United States. We have had a similar discussion surrounding email back in the early to mid-1990's. It is up to the user whether they will either embrace the new medium in which most people will eventually connect or you will (eventually) fall behind. I agree with what Rob said. It isn’t a fad, but it is just one of the many new innovations we have seen relating to the internet in the past 30 years.

I work extensively in the Research and Development Tax Credit and it has allowed me to connect my peers across the nations like I have never done before. It has opened up further an already open client base here in the United States.

We have had a similar discussion surrounding email back in the early to mid-1990’s. It is up to the user whether they will either embrace the new medium in which most people will eventually connect or you will (eventually) fall behind.

]]> By: Rob Dyer http://darylhill.com/2009/09/is-social-media-a-fad-over-631953-people-have-seen-this-have-you/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Rob Dyer Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:16:28 +0000 http://darylhill.com/?p=228#comment-44 Social Media definitely isn't a fad, but I wouldn't call it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution either. The IR wasn't just one invention and it didn't happen overnight. If you want to group social media in with how the internet itself has changed the world, then yeah, I'd vote for that. The world is forever changed by the technology that has developed over just the last 20 years. Social Media is a part of that giant change and as such is well beyond fad status. At the current rate, by the time a "fad" media concept is dying, another one is popping up. Can't call it a bubble since something completely new is starting each time. In a couple years we'll be saying "follow me on videotwitterspacebook and watch me walk around my house spouting my haikus" ("Worker bees can leave, even drones can fly away, the queen is their slave"). The 'oh by the way' part will be the second and third order effects of losing advertising revenue in the economy as attention shifts to free advertising via internet (of which I'm a huge fan). I'm pretty sure the world will adjust and be just fine. Besides, people generally do very poorly on their own at social media and will still pay someone to help maximize their effort. Cheers, Rob Social Media definitely isn’t a fad, but I wouldn’t call it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution either.

The IR wasn’t just one invention and it didn’t happen overnight. If you want to group social media in with how the internet itself has changed the world, then yeah, I’d vote for that.

The world is forever changed by the technology that has developed over just the last 20 years. Social Media is a part of that giant change and as such is well beyond fad status.

At the current rate, by the time a “fad” media concept is dying, another one is popping up. Can’t call it a bubble since something completely new is starting each time. In a couple years we’ll be saying “follow me on videotwitterspacebook and watch me walk around my house spouting my haikus” (”Worker bees can leave, even drones can fly away, the queen is their slave”).

The ‘oh by the way’ part will be the second and third order effects of losing advertising revenue in the economy as attention shifts to free advertising via internet (of which I’m a huge fan). I’m pretty sure the world will adjust and be just fine. Besides, people generally do very poorly on their own at social media and will still pay someone to help maximize their effort.

Cheers,
Rob

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