Comments on: Why social media makes the world a better place

By: Adalberto Lenny

Adalberto Lenny — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 05:18:43 +0000

The news feed does not show in my browser IE5 how can I repair it?

By: Robby Slaughter

Robby Slaughter — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:33:39 +0000

I believe the most transformative power of social media is the one you glossed over. You wrote in an aside: “it was difficult to pinpoint the ACTUAL amount, but they did feel their efforts pay off.”

This is the kind of statement that we make outside of social media all the time. Whether we help people carry their packages, offer a kind word to a friend, or a run a public service announcement on television, it’s extremely difficult to figure out if what we’re doing actually matters.

But on internet-based social media, it’s *trivial* to figure out how much money is actually being made! All that Firebelly has to do is to create a special domain name (like: http://www.socialgiveunitedway.com) which *only* occurs in social media campaigns. Then you can actually MEASURE the effects of our efforts.

I love social media because for the first time in history, we can actually see what’s happening. You can look at the hits and comments on your post and determine if you are really making an impact. The power is in the numbers.

By: waDsworth

waDsworth — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:06:14 +0000

i truly cherish the internet and everything that has transpired as a result of it. friends, relationships, monetary transactions, giveaways, fan-boy fulfillment via true interaction with idols of the musical variety.
i think you are barely scratching the surface here about how ones social media page is also an extension of themselves. there have been recent studies that say around 95 percent of college aged kids have a FB account, and about 50 percent of high school kids have a FB account. most importantly was a very recent study from germany stating that 98 percent of people online in social mediums such as FB and twitter are truly who they say that they are. long gone are the days of being scared to meet people online as the vast majority are genuine to how their profile depicts them as. ive always said that you can tell if someone is genuine to who their page says just by talking to them a couple of times, in fact- ive met upwards of 2-300 people from the internet from various websites over the last 15 years for many numerous reasons.
i think a greater picture into someones life can be seen by looking at which social sites they do and dont participate in and who their friends list big or small includes, as well as looking at which of the popular sites they maybe signed up for and dont participate in regularly when they are very active on other popular sites. many direct correlations can be made to a persons page besides what is obviously stated. people with 100000030394484 pictures have a good chance that they think very highly of themselves, on the other hand, when a person has only 20 friends and 3 pictures of themself and their page is locked up privately, they tend to be very shy introverted people. again, this is only scratching the surface to show to somewhat opposites…
there is also the darkside of social interaction online, and that is commonly found in forums and message boards. people referred to as trolls are there to do nothing but bring the system down with negativity by arguing, belittling and name calling. i try to be as nice and polite and cordial to everyone online and in person, and i still get attacked for no reason for being myself.

sorry for rambling, this post sparked some stuff i wanted blab outloud.