Blog Social networking

These days social networking has become the new sensation.  It is a great tool that consumers and producers use to get products to one another.  Whether it's someone famous that wore a certain pair of shoes that everyone now wants or just a paid advertisement that shows up on your Instagram feed it is pretty obvious that this once "social" tool is now becoming a marketing one. Social networking can even be as simple as someone commenting on someone else youtube videos, just like the boards in Scoopsville had comments on them Corporations have taken advantage of Instagram, Tweeter, Facebook, and Snapchat in their never ending search for a better marketing tool.  This sometimes free advertising tool can lead great sales among these corporations because whether we like it or not, we spend a big chunk of our day getting updates from these apps. Society benefits from this in two different ways.  On the one side producers get their products out there, whether they are use or just starting out they can have an even distribution of ads to their target customers.  On the other hand consumers get to see the latest and greats products, and find them for the same price.  Through social media and the internet in general these days consumers are smarter because with just a few clicks they can compare prices and specs of any product they want to purchase. On Comcast sleeping we see someone who has many complaints about their product and service.  Through Complaintsboard.com, the page he posted in, others are able to see for themselves what the complaints are all about and can help them be smart consumers who know what service to purchase. The dark side might be that people are overly glued to their devised in general, which is mostly likely primarily due to social media.  In the future I believe that technology will make it even easier to purchase products.  Whether it be a better implementation of drones like Amazon is testing out to deliver products as quickly as possible, or whether it be an ever better way to find and locate great deals which we haven't even thought of yet.  Through social media our buying possibilities are endless. We can even see that people are being followed on social media when they are looking to be hired for a job.  This can be a positive or negative thing.  Some people may not want to be followed and either change their names or block their pages to the public.  This is because they do not want to be judged by a few pictures.  Some may see this as a great networking tool and a way to advertise themselves.

Citations:

Social Media in Plain English - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE

 - Comcast Sleeping - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viw2TVBygBg