Social media tools have become like Starbucks runs. If you don’t visit one at least once a day, something is seriously amiss.
Social media tools: we all use them. So why not celebrate them?
Mashable.com created Social Media Day to do just that.
Today, June 30, Mashable.com invited fans of social media websites and networks to join together and praise the technology that links us to each other.
Mashable.com, a website devoted to social and digital media, technology and internet cultural news, created Social Media Day in 2010. Although it is a relatively new (and unofficial) holiday in the US, Social Media Day has garnered attention and support around the world. The state of Arizona, New York City and eight other cities (Victoria and Vancouver, B.C.; Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada; San Carlos and San Jose, California; Dublin, Ireland; and Toronto, Canada), have officially proclaimed June 30 as Social Media Day. Pretty wild, eh?
Social Media Day happened everywhere. Mashable.com’s Meetup page boasted a vast array of participating cities. From San Francisco to New York and from Antwerp to Buenos Aires, people from all over the globe showed interested in meeting (and Tweeting) in celebration of social media.
Although some city Meetups were more organized than others- San Francisco’s celebration took place at the indoor trampoline park House of Air—all social savvy tech users were encouraged to meet up in some way and say “Hooray!” to updates, virtual walls, news feeds and alerts.
The hosts of these updates go by recognizable names: Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, Foursquare, Yelp and of course, the irrepressible Facebook. These websites have become as integral to our daily communication as actual face-time conversations.
Social media not only connects us to each other in real time but also to information, events, trends and possibilities. In spite of distance, weather and time (elements that would naturally divide us), social media users remain closely knit in the bonds of community, friendship, business and common interests.
With this in mind, why wouldn’t we celebrate such a wonderful, revolutionizing tool?
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Wrong. Apparently some marketers are still in the dark about the solid benefits of participating on Facebook by means other than display ads. That seems odd to me, and I don’t mean that in a snarky way. I suppose I’m just so deeply entrenched in these social channels that I have a hard time understanding how people aren’t. Does that make me a bad person? Shoot, I hope not.