It's Everywhere!

While working on a recent assignment for an Introduction to Anthropology class, I ran across an interesting article. The American Anthropological Association is now using Twitter. I found this interesting because here is a society that’s purpose is to study and explore humans. This same society is now using a modern tool to spread their finding. At the same time, they can be using this tool to study humans.
Archaeologists of the future will be using Twitter to explore human society and interaction. The days of digging in the remains of an ancient city will still exist but digging through thousands of internet sites will replace cave drawings and manuscripts.
Until I began researching this a little more, I had no clue that Anthropology would have so many followers on Twitter and found that it has moved on to other blogs as well. Blogs such as this one are normally very against Twitter but are promoting using it to meet and have conversations with other people interested in Anthropology.
The author of this blog also brings up an interesting point. Who isn’t on Twitter? Organizations that you would never expect to be on Twitter or Facebook are joining the Social Networking phenomenon. The local baseball team here in town is on both but I am disappointed in how they are updated. I am sure the time is coming soon that my employer will be using social networking sites to connect with trucking companies and drivers.
The City of Sioux City is on Twitter. The Tyson Events Center here in Sioux City has a Facebook page and uses that to provide updates on what is coming to town. People also have an opportunity to post messages such as reviews and their opinions on what they would like to see in town. Everywhere you go, social networking is there.
So many times, you reach a point where a hot new item reaches a point where it no longer grows. People have had as much of it as they want. Demand starts to drop. In this case, new content will drop. I am not sure this will ever happen with social networking. For one thing, it is becoming easier to update. The percentage of people updating their Facebook status on the go, or Tweeting while being mobile continues to grow. We had better get used to it. All of this is upon us, and it isn’t going anywhere.