Social Media is an ever vibrant technology for us to be social in the 21st century. Not only are individuals benefiting from the social media explosion, but businesses are using it to spread their message. The Social Media Bandwagon has a wide variety of users that participate for anything from social interactions, professional growth, and even to learn about varied subjects. Today's social media has fundamentals that can be used as learning tools, because from my experience using these media services there has been learning moments that I have taken away. For example, with Twitter you can read posts that are listed on your home page that will give you access to a learning on demand type environment. The same is true for YouTube, it has just about anything that you want to learn on their site presented as channels. The best part is that you can subscribe to the channels that benefit your learning.
Today's Social Media can provide benefits even without interaction. For example, with Digg, you can have a search engine find information that relates to what you are studying or want to become more familiar. Even better you can go to Flickr and have the site show you different parts of the world, which is a virtual field trip. At some point now or in the future, we have all been on the Bandwagon even if we did not know it learning or possibly teaching something. The influence of Social Media is that we can all learn something new by the power of another person's thoughts or ideas. Which leaves me to think should we all strive to be on the Social Media Bandwagon or stay away?
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