Friday, 31 August 2012

Week 5: Social media.

This is my take on a few social media sites...

I believe I've expressed in an earlier post that I am not much of a Facebook fan. Anytime I do a quick roll through the feed I find myself wondering why I still have a Facebook account when I am not actually friends with most of my Facebook "friends" and I don't care at all about what they're having for lunch or that they are in the process of drinking a whole bottle of Jagermeister.

I only just realized that Last.Fm is a social media, up until this point I've just considered it a a starting point for the occasional Youtube spiral as I look for more bands "similar" to the one before and the next thing you know I'm listening to a Norwegian hardcore band and wondering why I've just wasted 3 hours of my life.

YouTube is probably the social media site I use the most. I've never posted a video or a comment but I do watch a lot of videos. I once spent 2 hours watching a guy doing drum covers of songs that I like, I watch funny/cute animal videos, recordings of live music, the occasional rant video and some really random things that friends have suggested. That's not to say I don't have my problems with YouTube, of late I've found myself having to continuously shoo away advertisements during my viewings, but I guess that's what you get from anything Google related. There are always other video sharing websites but I can't see myself ridding my life of YouTube to avoid clicking away a few ads.
Here's an oldie but goodie:

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