It’s hard to remember life without social media.
I saw my first computer in high school – it was the size of a fridge and didn’t have a keyboard. We had to use cards to enter data. We excitedly programmed it to write “happy birthday” and “school is boring” over and over. We weren’t quite in Bill Gate’s league.
In 1991 I bought my first personal computer, a Macintosh Classic. Soon after I connected to the internet (it was $36 per hour). Since then it’s been a blur – faster, smaller, sleeker, cheaper, phones, shopping, music, maps, apps, cameras and more. And somewhere along the line – social media. If anything separates this century from the last, it’s social media.
In the landscape of our social media options – Facebook is at the summit. It began its ascent in 2004 and today has reached some impressive statistics; one billion people use it each month (there are only seven billion people in the world); 60% of the world’s adults have used it; it is available in over 70 different languages. It’s even assisted in overthrowing governments and enabled coordinated worldwide change.
