May 26, 201412 yr Once again I agree with much of what you have said. Like it or not' date=' the way millions get their news has changed.[/quote'] Correct! Never thought I'd be ok with not reading a news paper. But now you have news stations (ch 9 in Cincy) that are starting to charge to view some of their online content. No thanks! I'll just find it free somewhere else.
May 26, 201412 yr Like it or not' date=' social media has changed how information is disseminated. For some, social media is a starting point.[/quote'] And it's why some countries have blocked social media like Twitter, at least for a time. They know how powerful it can be.
May 26, 201412 yr So sad to say but our generation of kids, people in 20s and 30s are addicted to Twitter, Facebook, Skype, YouTube. It's the first thing most do when they wake up and last thing they do before bed. Boys and girls dating don't even talk on the phone, they have a texting relationship. Kids don't watch the news, old people do and the old people don't know how to Facebook or Twitter, at least the majority don't. I'm sure what Michelle Obama did, did make some aware of what happened, sad to say but true. The generation of Tweens and young adolescents just don't give a (insert bad word for poop) this day and time. We live in a me society. Where do you get your news?
May 26, 201412 yr WLEX Fox News tv and online CBS sports line Lexington herald online CNN sometimes Michael Savage Info Wars And of course BGP, no where else do you get so many different opinions.
May 26, 201412 yr WLEX Fox News tv and online CBS sports line Lexington herald online CNN sometimes Michael Savage Info Wars And of course BGP, no where else do you get so many different opinions. All have twitter, Facebook and instagram Accounts, actually multiple accounts. People on Facebook and Twitter click through their postings to the websites. People getting their news via Twitter and Facebook get their info from the same place you do. You bring topics here to BGP that interest you. You raise awareness on these issues here. Others share or discuss on Facebook or retweet and respond with comment on Twitter. Hashtag campaigns allow people to search for topics or issues or anything, by searching #_______. But we all get our news from the same sources, really. How we share that, or spread the word to raise awareness differs, but different ways doesn't mean any one way is "right" or "wrong".
May 26, 201412 yr We need a stupid picture with ridiculous hashtags to be aware of something in the news? How pathetic. Obviously. There are more posts in this thread crying about a hashtag than there are in the thread I made about the kidnapped girls. Let's keep crying about The First Lady and hashtags though. #priorities
May 26, 201412 yr If you hashtag haters aren't realizing that you reach more people in social media than the news then I advise you to keep watching your black and white TVs while the rest of us move on with the rest of the world. Hell, I found out about the kidnapped girls through twitter. Not the news. Funny how all of the people who complain about the biased media watch the news instead of using other alternatives to stay informed. #irony
May 26, 201412 yr You can shake your canes at Twitter as well I love the image you painted here. "You damned kids get off of my lawn!"
May 26, 201412 yr Another Kristen Pflum fan, I presume. No, my wife makes me watch it. But she is a bonus to having to watch it.
May 26, 201412 yr If you hashtag haters aren't realizing that you reach more people in social media than the news then I advise you to keep watching your black and white TVs while the rest of us move on with the rest of the world. Hell, I found out about the kidnapped girls through twitter. Not the news. Funny how all of the people who complain about the biased media watch the news instead of using other alternatives to stay informed. #irony Funny, I found out about the kidnapped girls long before the silly picture and hastags were posted or before your thread. You can ridicule our age, but I'd bet we're much more informed than the vast majority of those "reached" by the ridiculous hashtags. Come check out my TV setup sometime, even you'd be impressed.
May 26, 201412 yr How the Hashtag Is Ruining the English Language (Updated) If Twitter is useful for anything beyond a flamethrower of breaking news and URL errata, it's forcing us to be considerate about language—we have to use space wisely. Unfortunately, the hashtag is ruining talking. #NotGonnaLie This modern use of hashtags was pioneered several years ago by one dude: Chris Messina, a Google employee. Messina thought the old pound symbol—hitherto untapped online—could be a good way to "tag" tweets, adding order to the enormous gas cloud of noise that is 99% of all Twitter action. That function works—we could search for #fukushima or #tahrirsquare this past year and yield news. This origin doesn't matter anymore. Hashtags at their best stand in as what linguists call "paralanguage," like shoulder shrugs and intonations. That's fine. But at their most annoying, the colloquial hashtag has burst out of its use as a sorting tool and become a linguistic tumor—a tic more irritating than any banal link or lazy image meme. The hashtag is conceptually out of bounds, being used by computer conformists without rules, sense, or intelligence, a like yknowwwww that now permeates the internet outside of the tweets it was meant to corral. It pervades Facebook, texting, Foursquare—turning into a form of "ironic metadata," as linguist Ben Zimmer of The Visual Thesaurus labels it. Beyond fashionable crutch, the hashtag makes people feel part of something. But we don't need more inside jokes, culture cliques, or frivolous gestures. Adding a hashtag doesn't make you "in the know," because there's nothing to know—most of the time I don't see what you did there, because you didn't do anything there. Like adding a rimshot to your own joke, we now stick hashtags in our digital statements because we think that might validate them as part of this new, mangled syntax.
May 26, 201412 yr Funny, I found out about the kidnapped girls long before the silly picture and hastags were posted or before your thread. You can ridicule our age, but I'd bet we're much more informed than the vast majority of those "reached" by the ridiculous hashtags. Highly doubt it... If Twitter was such a terrible avenue for obtaining information, why does virtually every media outlet flash their Twitter user names and hash tags during broadcasts? I understand that older people may not grasp the idea and concept of Twitter. Some don't embrace change, some just aren't computer/media savvy. Since joining Twitter, I have learned of MANY more happenings in our world before I saw/heard them on TV, and the numbers aren't even close.
May 26, 201412 yr Highly doubt it... If Twitter was such a terrible avenue for obtaining information, why does virtually every media outlet flash their Twitter user names and hash tags during broadcasts? I understand that older people may not grasp the idea and concept of Twitter. Some don't embrace change, some just aren't computer/media savvy. Since joining Twitter, I have learned of MANY more happenings in our world before I saw/heard them on TV, and the numbers aren't even close. Don't ever doubt older people.
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