I like most people enjoy using twitter and facebook, occasionally. I however, am not a heavy user. I enjoy learning new and unique ways to grab individuals attention and sell products. I wake up watching TV with social media/advertisements on the broadcast, I go to class and learn about why people watch the shows they watch, use the social media sites and then I come back after class is over and watch the shows and use the social media talked about in class. The social media/advertising circle is a never-ending continuum.
Today, as I was sitting in church waiting for the preacher to start preaching the youth pastor got up to make the regular church announcements. So, in the announcements, he proceeds to tell the congregation about this new campaign their starting and with that campaign there will be a facebook page. The facebook page is to help build community within the challenge of the campaign. At church, you do not expect to be talking about facebook and social media. Advertising to the community through facebook sure seems to be the thing to do these days. We are constantly being advised to go on facebook and like a page. One morning I turned the TV on and noticed on almost every channel I flipped through, the facebook logo and page of the channel popped up during the broadcast. As a society, social media sites are being used to advertise everything.
I have a new campaign like me on facebook; I have a garage sale join my event on facebook. I’m staring in a play come watch my highlights on facebook. I could go on and on, but you get the point everything is being advertised through facebook.
What are we going to do as a society when the facebook community does not exist anymore or will that ever happen?
I have this overwhelming feeling that social media and advertisers have taken over the world and everywhere we look, it’s always going to be there. Can I not get a day off from social media and advertisements?
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