Social Media Vs New Media Analysis

For the past two decades, we’ve thought of “new media” as the upstart and “old media” as reliable media. But what if new media isn’t as new as we think it is and maybe old media isn’t the oldest type of media? Though many people believe that we have come such a long way from previous social media outlets, nothing has really changed. Twenty years ago, my mother was calling her friends on landlines and meeting up at the local cafes. Today, I’m calling my friends on my iPhone and meeting up at the local mall. Much of our communication styles have not changed. What as changed is the advance of technology. Tom Standage defines social media as “media we get from other people exchanged along social exchanged along social connections, creating a distributed …show more content…
I support Standage’s beliefs about social media and how it is not a fad and it will never become one. Not only has social media evolved throughout the years but also over my lifetime. At least ten years ago, there was no Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or YouTube. Our lives did not revolve around a stream of status updates, tweets, videos and filtered photos. I remember when I was little and having those big desktop computers and now I am nineteen years old and I have portable laptops, IPads, IPhones, and tablets. I also remember everyone raving about MySpace and Facebook and how everyone had to have one. But, now we have an endless amount of social networking sites such as Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube, Pinterest and many other sites that have evolved and expanded many more opportunities for people to communicate. I believe that the future of social media can only get better and expand more of our social media networks. Social media has become a lifestyle for many people and I can only imagine how fixated people will become within the