I think that social media has changed how the news gets around not really the quality. Social media brought significant changes into the ways that we communicate and retrieve information. Such media is very popular and people benefit from it as it is convenient to use and easily available to everyone. The most significant benefit of using social media is that it is an accessible and inexpensive source of communication that enables unrestricted flow and exchange of information. It allows people to communicate regardless of their global position and to access information and news from the entire world. We no longer have to wait for the evening news because we can now access information or news much quicker via internet. While social media has made news faster and accessible, it also has a down side.
They have the opportunity to input their version of the news onto their blog, podcast, or social networking site. And this information may not be entirely true. Also it is very easy to ‘Photoshop’ any picture, so if these citizen journalists wanted to make their news seem more real, they could just add there Photoshop picture. But overall news in social media is going to keep growing, whether or not the information is fact or fiction. And because social media is growing and not going anywhere soon, the news in the blogs, podcasts, and social networks is going to keep growing as well.
On our part this is very lazy for us not to walk down the street to the newspaper box and pay our $.50 for the paper or have the paper person deliver the paper right to our front door and then sit in the comfort of our own home and read the paper or better yet turn on the local radio station and receive the latest news. So saying that the new hype of social media delivering our news and gossip has not only decreased the quality but also the information contained, compared to the old fashion ways of seeing it in hardcopy.
