If you're like me, you've probably watched the growth of the new Social Networks and seen them as just another fad - no more. They are here to stay and are fast becoming how more and more people communicate with each other, forming their own movements in the process. The use of Twitter in Iran following the elections is the most recent example. I was reminded by viewing a presentation by Clay Shirky, professor, speaker and author of the new book 'Here Comes Everybody', as he gave a TED Talk last month entitled “How Twitter can make history, that the earthquake that hit the Sichuan province in China on May 12th, 2008 was first communicated to the outside world on Twitter.The US research group Nielsen has also just released a report into 'How Teens Use Media' It's free and well worth reading.
Link this to a presentation I published a few weeks back on 'Gen Y, WMDs and learning from Obama' and you can see a real trend.
What does it mean? Time will ultimately tell, but Clay Shirky makes the comment that for the first time in history, everyone can be both a consumer and a publisher of information. What we do with this will be the real test.
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