Reaction to: Pew on Social Media: It's Bigger Than You Think

To start I want to echo the phrase It’s not an afterthought. This article is correct about many things; the first being that social media pages are not an afterthought not by a long shot it’s just like the television or the radio or even the phone when first introduced by their inventers they were treated as toys. This article used the idea of making money and increasing the amount of people that get to one web page. The greatest thing about this article is the idea it put out about news reaching more and more people faster. But when I started thinking about social pages and them being used as a source of revenue.
Then my thoughts on that was of a little offended; it is great that networking sights are going to be used more but the idea of adds popping up and interrupting everything that I do online is a reality that I’m not only facing right now but it’s a reality that is going to get worse and worse. In the start the internet’s networking sights where only for young people to connect with each other, then adults started to use it, the next step is the advertisements came because the adults where the ones with money. This pattern is the same one with the television or the radio or even the phone. This pattern follows the same trends till the society at the time is use to it. Social pages are just now being understood as a serious method of revenue because there are people that have money using them. Capitalism is not a bad thing but the corruption might be all too real one day. And that is only because there is a lot of money to be made on the internet and depending on what direction this generation lets the world of the internet take will help shape what it will be like years from now. It will not take long till the marketing department of some branch wants to take control of sights. I can see Pepsi taking over Facebook and posting ads everywhere and people leaving Facebook starting a new thing then Coke a cola taking over that one. But we can fight back and that is by using that initial idea of media news and informing the people of what’s going on. Unless the news get censored then there is no hope.