Social Media Revolution
Some interesting data to make you think more about how and why you use social media.
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Noah Harlan August 24th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I will leave the same comment here that I did on Ted Hope’s blog when he posted the same video:
Earlier today I had a long back and forth with a journalist about the health care debate and I was pointing out to her how little fact was in what she had been writing and that what Americans need now, more than ever, is _good_ information. This video, in a weird way, reinforces the worst part of social media – its ability to turn data that is incorrect into accepted “fact” for the larger community and _that_ has the potential to be very damaging. Do we care deeply about the actual percentage of businesses that use LinkedIn? No, not really. But we do care when social media creates straw bogeymen like the birther movement, the death panels canard, and 9/11 conspiracy theories.
I certainly don’t want to equate this video with those issues (and other, far more nefarious ones, like the long sordid history of the Protocols of Zion) but I think that the popularity of this video shows how statistics, well presented and passed along socially, distort our understanding of the world we actually live in.
I would like to remix the video and add a last stat: 99% of viewers will never fact check these claims.