Perception of Social Media...

My personal perception on social media is that it is neither a fad or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution. I do not believe that it is fad because it is too integrated into our society to disappear and it is not as big a shift as the Industrial Revolution simply because social media is an indirect result of it. Effects from the Industrial Revolution are still being "felt" today. Everything was effected by it whereas Social Media has effected merely a portion of what we use today. For example, transportation. Transportation made a huge advancement from the 18th to 19th century due to the Industrial Revolution. During this time the introduction of trains, cars, airplanes took place and has since continued to grow and prosper to this day. Social media cannot hold this claim because it has had very little to do with the growth of the transportation industry. I do not deny that social media has had some effect but comes nothing compared to what the Industrial Revolution was able to do. As for communication Social media has taken what the Industrial Revolution started and simply put "ran with it". Social media has done a lot to change how we see things but unless it is able to effectively change or improve on what we use today as a whole I do not believe it can achieve what the Industrial Revolution did.