Social media facts 2013, by the numbers:
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Juan Cole
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It is scary that the world evolves around social media.
I’m 25, and social media disturbs me.
It will not end well.
I was utterly terrified by that supposedly uplifting commercial by Google where the baby girl is born and has her entire life history marked down on her Google account.
How is that possibly uplifting? I hate the thought that you could never outrun your online history. That is the type of social control that tyrants have dreamed of ever since there were humans but never could really achieve until now.
But how many those 25 million pages could be considered good, let alone of professional quality? How many cover topics of significance, as opposed to pop-culture trivia?
From my vantage point, Wikipedia is mostly used as a sort of glorified Google. Its biggest cultural impact has been on very small languages which have heretofore lacked for published material.
Wow, that is the most incoherent and idiotic advertisement for corporate profit every put together. It makes huge generalizations, completely ignores the utterly exploitative roles of many of these companies, and conflates entirely different concepts, technologies, and ideas under the dubious umbrella of “social media.”