singular media!

media is singular:
http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/media_rare.php#

Just Your Average User

Social Media. I'm almost tired of the way the phrase sounds already. Media is suppose to be social, isn't it? We were meant to share our creations and thoughts across a vast network of interconnected computers, right?

It's easy to forget how new and powerful this technology is. And even easier to get caught up in things like lolcats. But there are other, probably more important uses a personal can put social media to.

To get a little insight into how a regular person can make us of this budding new world, I spoke (via Facebook) to an old friend of mine who has recently become an avid social media user, Noah Price.

Noah works a 9-5 job and has a passion for gaming and smoking cigarettes. He professes on his blog that he's “spent a good portion of my life trying to absorb interesting knowledge”. Noah's social media use centers on his love of knowledge – including the blog he posts daily to Facebook with interesting tidbits and videos.

Okay, I know this isn't the most informative video, it just made me laugh.

Noah is one of the few people I personally know who uses the Internet for what I think of as the “right” reasons: he wants to disseminate information, plain and simple. Beyond just putting the information out there, he creates a place to talk about it.

1. What types of social media do you make us of?
   
   
   FaceBook, Twitter, Personal blog, Other websites blogs
   
   
2. Is the interconnectedness of social media important for getting information out there?
   
   Of course, without the interconnectedness it's just "media"
   
   
3. Which social media platform has been the most beneficial and why?
   
   FaceBook was probobly the best for me, it allowed me to meet up with old friends and family members, not just a sea of random people who didn't give real names or pictures.
   
   
4. Do you think using social media is an effective way to get information to the masses?
   
   Yes and no. Because anyone can get any "information" out there it forces us to take the information with several grains of salt, generally weakening our trust in any information we gather and forcing us to get second, third and fourth opinions.
   
   
5. Is there something social media doesn’t do that you think it should?
   
   That is a loose question. Social media does exactly what is should, it gets people talking as a group more than as individuals, asking anything more of it would be asking for it to be a different thing.
   
   
6. Do you think there is any chance we may fall back into the old style of information gathering or are social media methods here to stay?
   
   We will only go back to older methods in the event that social media goes away, most likely it will not but if the economy collapses or electricity becomes scarce then yes, but it won't be by choice.

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