Social Media is the Biggest Shift Since the Industrial Revolution

Bobbi Newman

May 18, 2010

Hi Clyde
I welcome comments that offer a different point of view or different opinion as long as there is no name calling or personal attacks. Your comment is very professional and I’m happy you left it. The video makes the statement a question and I used it as a statement in part because I was curios how people would react to it.

To me its the potential for change to society on a huge scale that makes them similar.

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1. Clyde Smith
  
  May 18, 2010
  
  Oops, should have replied here. Please see reply above.
  
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May 18, 2010

Thanks for the response.

These are all agents of change but an Industrial Revolution is a quite different phenomenon than particular communication tools in a time of massive change in communication driven, in part, by the computerization/digitization of everything.

We’ve always been social creatures and tool makers but we haven’t always had machines or computers.

So, at a certain point, a statement saying social media is the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution starts to sound like the kind of hype that confuses people and leads to bad decision making regarding social media in library settings.

It’s like comparing apples and oranges except that apples and oranges are way more similar phenomenon than are the Industrial Revolution and social media.

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