Facebook is trending, Social Media is culture!

This week we had to read some articles for class. The “Just Facebook Me” article by Lori Brooks was very interesting and basically has been saying what I have been saying to my friends. Social media is here to stay. Although you can believe Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc, are trends, that may be true but Social media isn’t a trend, it is now a culture. Also when the author says "That’s what’s wrong with the newspaper industry [Newspaper} haven’t adapted to changing ways of communicating.” I believe this was true up until this year. I am now seeing this. Before, I believe the news industry tried to first adapt to the internet by creating a website, which was fine. But once online chatting became a trend, news websites began to lose some purpose and social media was born. Now trends later the big social media sites are Facebook and twitter. It now finally seems that newspapers and news shows are not just creating more interesting websites, but now creating profiles on all social media sites. This article stuck with me because it only enforces my campus outreach plan. The social media blast, well more of Facebook blast. If we have everybody in class start posting about one of the campus media outlets at the same time it will trend on Facebook, giving these sites more relevance. Also right now I believe in order to bring the sandspur back; we have to prove its relevance to the campus. I believe that we can start with Facebook.