Social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter and Blogspot are important and relevant in today’s society for many reasons.
These social media outlets provide a good outlet to the journalism industry so that journalists are able to bring the people of the world the news in unique ways and they are staying up to date to all of the latest technology crazes/updates/whatever you wish to call this phenomenon that is social media. In today’s society, the majority of the people who are “up to date” on the news, have a Facebook or Twitter or keep a blog to have more in-depth responses to news and common topics that are relevant at the moment. All in relation to journalism, social media is basically an expanded form of journalism because that is just the natural way it has expanded. For example, when the World Wide Internet came about, newspapers and magazines created websites to keep up with the ever-changing and rapidly growing world, so they would not lag behind their competitors in providing the fastest news. Personally, I’m a big fan of social media because it’s interactive, and the main word here being SOCIAL. Before social media, journalism basically provided the news and their readers didn’t really have a strong suit in which they could provide feedback, spark a conversation about the latest hot news or whatnot. So overall, social media in its youth has proved so far to be very relevant in today’s society and supportive to the journalism industry.
Furthermore, one of the social media outlets that intrigue me the most is blogs. Blogs can be used for a variety of different reasons, as stated before, blogs can be used as a news outlet or they can be used as a personal online diary, what have you. From my experience, a good blog is a mixture of both. Because, to be a blogger, you must have a keen interest, focus or desire to spend vast amount of time writing about something. So it’s nice to read a blog occasionally that isn’t scatter-brained and is disciplined in the interest that it’s focus on. No randomness of, oh, this is supposed to be a Harry Potter blog but you stumble upon a random post about Doctor Who. I appreciate those kinds of blogs that are dedicated into what they are interested in. Also, if they’re like me, I think a good blog is a blog that has a variety of interests, so as to appeal to a wider group of readers. For my own personal blog, I would focus on my favorite TV shows, such as: True Blood, Jersey Shore, Glee, The Office and so on. Mostly in my blog I would post a lot about pop culture, because as a journalism student I really like to be updated in what’s going on right now and really would love the feeling when I break the story that Chris Colfer revealed that he was secretly dating Darren Criss the whole time! So, a good blog in my opinion is something that is dedicated, passionate about their interests, and even if not focused on a news source, inevitably ends up as a news source.
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