social media is the keep to future communication

Here are my readings for today:

“You’ve been busy all week, especially with the holidays right around the corner. Kick back and relax with these new sections. The weekend is here! Alberto Antoniazzi may be “the graphic designer that will save the world” and he also curates a fantastic set of design imagery we are very pleased to share with you.Curbed is a sharp, intelligent look at dining, nightlife, shopping and real estate……….”

“On the fourth Thursday of every November, Americans engage in an annual feast that reminds us of our country’s humble origins, and give us a good reason to get together with family, watch football and stuff our faces until our pants don’t fit. It’s the official start to the holiday season, and it can either be a fantastic day full of food, family and fun, or a total nightmare full of burnt turkeys and busted travel plans”…….

“Social media is not just a social instrument of communication. It is not all about people sharing ideas and thoughts with other people. It is the creation and exchange of ‘User Generated Content’. The ability to transform broadcast media monologues into a social media dialogues that spread, sometimes, faster and wider than television, radio or print. Social Media when compared to year 2009 shows a fantastic growth in terms of people participation, penetration, user-ability, business and more. “….

“That mom and dad have joined Facebook is no longer news. It has even been parodied on Saturday Night Live already. What is astonishing is the rate of growth in the number of Baby Boomers joining sites like Facebook, which between this year and last has skyrocketed. Social media use among internet users aged 65 and older grew 100 percent last year, so that one in four (26 percent) people in that age group online are now logging in to Facebook, Twitter and the like, reports the Pew Internet and American Life Project in a recent study. “…………..