Social media is changing the news— For the bad and good

http://socialnetworkingnews.org/social-media-is-changing-the-news-for-the-bad-and-good/

Social media has done it again. Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg stealing the Facebook idea from his college buddies, we can now bring kitchen table discussions to global platforms because regardless of how petty or irrelevant the color of a dress may be, we care. It’s inevitable that unreliable platforms like Facebook are rapidly changing what we consider as newsworthy.

Black and blue. White and gold. Leopard and hot pink. People spent days debating the color of the dress a bride’s mother wore during a Scotland wedding, that appeared to be one color to some and a completely different color to others. The dress picture that was posted on Tumblr earlier this month went viral within hours— opening up the question into a nationwide discussion.

Source: sundial.csun.edu

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