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In remembrance of Social Media Day
June 30th was officially the first "Social Media Day" around the world. Twitter was abuzz with people wishing each other well in honor of the "holiday" and there was an abundance of articles from all the new social savvy sites who were attempting to define why social media was deserving of a holiday. The most popular social media blog, Mashable, addressed yesterday as follows:
"Today we acknowledge and celebrate the revolution of media becoming social. A day that honors the technological and societal advancements that have allowed us to have a dialogue, to connect and to engage not only the creators of media, but perhaps more importantly, one another."
This explanation seems to me to be more social media propaganda. After all, the underlying theme of social media lately seems to be the lack of security and privacy provided by these networks, not how well it has allowed us to communicate. Although I have gotten in touch with the guy who used to pick his nose back in elementary school, I can probably count on one hand how many meaningful conversations I have had over any social networking site. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy facebook, I have a twitter account, and I used to work for a social media company, I just don't feel that social media is deserving of a holiday. I don't think I can say it any better than a friend of the company posted on twitter yesterday:
"Special days are for deserving causes (Earth Day) or for people/milestones to be honored (MLK Day). Neither applies to Social Media."- John Lane
It's hard not to agree with that statement. I guess I would be more for an event such as this if there was a social network out there where I felt like meaningful conversation was encouraged, a network where I could communicate with my friends about the stuff that's going on between us, without all the noise offered on twitter and facebook.
Now that's just one man's opinion. We here at Fragment want to hear your opinion. Did you celebrate the Social Media holiday? Do you think it was just as ridiculous as I did? Leave your comments below.Posted by Hudson Haines on Thursday, July 01, 2010 in 0 Comments| Share
