Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube all have ridiculously young founders. These and other social media wunderkinds took the world by storm and reshaped friendship, media, and publicity, bringing interdependence's warm glow (and a nice serving of attention deficit disorder) to the world. On facebook alone, I have 2400 friends, and I even know some of them! :) In terms of social media, this was definitely not the decade from hell. This was the decade where google became a bona fide verb. You and I were brought closer together, no matter who you and I are (as long as we live in the first world and can afford high speed internet, that is). We also became even more scatterbrained and unable to pay attention to the people right in front of us. Ah, the irony of social media.
Original Article: Youtube: Best Social Media Innovation of the Decade - One City: A Buddhist Blog for Everyone
