Today’s norm is so much different then yesterday’s norm. Online technology keeps on advancing everyday. The potential of advancement in our lifetimes is too big of a concept to even grasp yet. I feel like a lot of credit needs to be given to social media for these enormous leaps from technology. Social Media has changed our whole world. From very little contact coming from technology in the beginning of my life to now, where everyone communicates online. Only about fifteen years later. 

Social Media has recently become relevent in modern day society. When it first started to take off, Facebook was the head of the run because they were the first social media platform that really took off. Nobody ever saw anything like that until Facebook appeared and completley changed the game. After that, new platforms really started to come in, such as Instagram, snapchat, myspace, Tumblr, Twitter, and now more recently TikTok. All of them are a little different from eachother. A few of those platforms primarily focus on communication while the other platforms primarily focus on entertainment and “Likes” “Follows”, everything to keep your “status” up. Social Media allows you to create whatever kind of version of yourself that you want. Which is a negative about the whole concept. Since this is the case, I feel like you can’t really trust anything that you see on social media. Pictures, videos, stories, you can never be sure what is true and what is not. 

Social Media and present day entertainment isn’t just viewed from your phone. It can also be viewed on the Television or even listened to on the radio. There was a huge roar in television entertainment had its run of “Trash TV” which were shows that were overall pretty dumb and cringe, but the catch was that you couldn’t look away because of how entertaining it was. The Jerry Springer show is the top show when talking about “Trash TV”. His show was based around confrontation and really personal/awkward problems. Usually the show would escalate to someone crying or fighting or some kind of plot twist to make the audience react. Dr. Phil is also one of these shows. It’s really bad publicity but the people love it. When watching “The Outrage Machine” it went into the subject of Outrage TV where people go crazy on camera for attention and publicity. You see this more now on social media with interviews or funny videos to try and achieve the same thing. The Fame. A lot of people will do a lot of things to get really rich and famous. Some people are okay with trying to ahieve that goal in front of a live audience and cameras broadcasting to millions of people world wide. 

Overtime, Social Media will keep advancing and become even more apart of our lives. Jobs and lifestyles are starting to appear from social media. That will only inspire people to make it bigger and better. Social Media will be an impactful thing for most if not all of our lives.