Just How Good Social Media Can Be

Just How Good Social Media Can Be These days, you never know what to expect in the news. The old adages about the news being only about war, death, and suffering isn’t true—recent headlines about the young girl that swam across Lake Ontario and changing... More

Just How Good Social Media Can Be These days, you never know what to expect in the news. The old adages about the news being only about war, death, and suffering isn’t true—recent headlines about the young girl that swam across Lake Ontario and changing economics for previously less developed countries like Brazil attest to this. However, there’s enough political ranting in the American election race and a continuous onslaught of stories on European economic crises that the negative returns with a vengeance to reclaim today’s media. It’s such a push-pull situation that it’s often hard to tell if the world we live in is as good or as bad as we’re told. How to use social media for business: One of the most recent negative stories is about Facebook’s market share loss. The famous social media web site, a consumer favorite and subject of the David Fincher film The Social Network, has come into some hard times. Rumors that founder Mark Zuckerberg was removed from Facebook’s board of d Less