Development of Social Media

Development of Social Media

            In the article Engineering Sociality in a Culture of Connectivity, Dijck talks about the historical transformation of social media in the years between 2001 and 2012. This is because the drastic growth in social media took place within this period. Apart from the growth in social media, the internet opened ways as a platform for the other online services. On the other hand the article Facebook and the Imperative of Sharing talks about the evolution of sharing personal information by the facilitation of technology. With the launch of Facebook, it is among the social media platforms that greatly helped in the facilitation of sharing personal information. The two articles are greatly connected in the fact that they are both facilitated by the internet, and that sharing personal information was as a result of the massive social media usage growth..

From reading the two articles, I find it interesting that Facebook set the standard for other social media platforms to develop and advance sharing, which led to the growth of other social media platforms as well. After realizing the importance that social media and the internet has generally made in our lives, I view the internet as a very important tool in our lives. Either way the author does not explain fully on the perspective of the internet which facilitates social media.