Here Comes Everybody

Social media is taking over the world. It has stormed in and made its way into the lives of everyone with access to a computer or smart phone. As human beings we have a natural tendency to associate with other people, to connect with them, especially with others that share our same interests and hobbies. As the world has changed and advanced, people have found it more difficult to be a real community, people live around each other and yet often have no idea who their neighbors are. People were able to easily accept the new advancements and changes in technology, especially the coming of the Internet. It enabled them to be able to connect with other people that were like them, that shared their same hobbies, and that they would have had no other way to connect with except for with the birth of the Internet. It had the ability to connect people like nothing could before. It provided the framework, the ability for others to create websites and places for people to interact with each other. When many of these places were created, they didn't expect the results that they achieved, they did not know what to expect, but the people who saw the potential in them were able to utilize them to link people and create the stepping stones to what exists now.

There are so many sites that help to link people that share interests; pinterest, instagram, facebook, google+, linked-in and many more. These are the more modern sites that are widely popular and used in most countries of the world today. These social media sites are literally forcing their way into the world, they are becoming more and more popular and effecting people's lives drastically. These sites have their good uses but they can and have  also been used for bad. Facebook has helped many people be able to connect with old lost friends, and family, but because of this it has also been heavily involved in divorce cases, because of many people hooking back up with past girlfriends and boyfriends or engaging in inappropriate flirting with members of the opposite sex. People have set up wonderful reunions and meetings that have brought about much good, but people have also neglected children, jobs, and other responsibilities after becoming addicted to these sites. Social media is finding ways to take over the world, we have to be careful what we allow it to do, and how much we allow it to affect our lives.