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No question that social media has revolutionized advice. As a event, are becoming more knowledgeable, more than direct, and in a lot of ways, more diversified. Just what is going to happen to existent, human experiences and interactions in the years to come?

Social media has significantly inverse the way many of the states operate in our personal and professional lives. Well -- some of us more than than others! We take all seen people who are so obsessed with pouring their life out on social media that they really forget how to alive information technology. Nosotros complain "that couple" who fights with each other over Facebook, or that bride-to-be who is so swept up in the attending of posting every moment on Instagram -- that she forgets to enjoy her engagement. Or even the guy that pretty much merely details every motion he makes on Twitter: "Only woke upward and fabricated some toast. Most to mow the lawn. #Sat." With this rapid alter in online beliefs, it is no wonder why some say that social media has totally corrupted us.

Yous we could choose to think of it that way. Or we could choose to think that social media has actually given us a platform for greater, and more direct advice. Considering of social media, we are able to connect with people that we would never accept the opportunity to meet, only because we are allowed access -- instead of having to exist in the right place at the right time. We're able to passively share the lives of people nosotros know on Facebook and other social platforms. We COULD see this as an opportunity for greater personal growth.

Reading or hearing about something will never (and SHOULD never) supplant actually connecting with others through shared experiences. New social media networks are starting to option upwardly on this tendency -- using their platform as a tool to allow people to have real life experiences.

Skout is probably the most popular example of this. It is a social media dating site that uses a GPS tracking device to detect other singles in your area, view their profiles and make up one's mind if you desire to encounter. It's like to Tinder, simply a little classier. It seems to be more than about making real human connection than only "hooking upward."

Nexercise is a social exercise app that tracks your gym and eating habits, while keeping you lot engaged in a social network of other health-conscious friends. It alerts you whenever your friends are currently working out or have reached a milestone in their fitness goals -- giving you a huge incentive to stick with your practise and eating plans. Information technology also promotes friends going to the gym with i another, rather than lonely. It's social and fun if you're working out (and aye, information technology kind of shames you to your friends if yous're not!).

1st Form Fashion is a very new social platform. It was founded by a medical doctor with a passion for fashion and travel. 1 day while waiting at the airport, he found himself paying shut attention to people's style and thought of how cool it would exist if people could fly according to their personal style. So he developed this media platform in which people from all over the world can post their fashion pictures and generate "likes." Those reaching over 300 Likes receive a showtime course plane ticket to anywhere they would like -- so they can actually feel fashion in different cities Immediate.

Living in a world where limit our communication to 150 characters or less, nosotros should support social media like this and become ourselves out making real personal connections.

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