Now in current times it seems that you can't do anything without social media being mentioned. Technology has advanced majorly since, say, even 20 years ago and it continues to advance as we speak. The moment something happens the first thing people do is go "Is it on Youtube yet? Check Facebook, check Twitter, check Instagram." News has changed quite a lot due to social media. People quickly post the news or their own reports on what ever event happened. It is rather difficult to hunt down to 'true' information. As Devin Harner author of the article The Twitter Effect: How Social Media Changes the News Narrative said "Perhaps 24 hours or so of Twitter chunks, sifted and sorted out of de facto stop-motion narrative mode, might yield a story that harnesses new media's power." From experience I know just how difficult it is to get correct information on the Internet. You have to sift through website after website to find the correct sources. Even this blog could be mistaken for a correct source.
Words travel quickly through technology. Just a few people posting and sending out information to a few of there friends can spread to more people and it will keep going. Yes, it is amazing and quick but it can sometimes be hard to decipher what is fact and what is fiction. J. Peder Zane of the Hey, At Least You Can Be Virtually Immortal article believes that the use of Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter "create[s] a sharp break with the past."
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