I found this article that came from the Wilson Quarterly, which is a pretty legitimate source that talks about the good of social media. It praises social media because it is the new age of communication. People do not sit down and read books as much or write letters to each other. People tweet or communicate through facebook. Info can be found easier and quicker with the web and with social media you can find information and relay it to your friends and family quickly.
The article talks about blogs. It talks about blogs and how blogs are misunderstood because they cover many different topics and can cause an individual to think more about different subjects than they would just reading them. People claim that having all this information streaming at you diminishes your attention span, but according to this article by Tyler Cowen actually having multiple windows open we use multi-tasking more and more in our lives. An example of this is finding a song on Youtube and then sharing it with your friends on facebook. The author does a pretty good job of showing the good of social media when a lot of sites I've seen show the bad.
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