Clay Shirkly

--- Clay Shirkly discusses how different social media sources have become so influential in every day life in his speech; How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history. Shirkly argues that professionals are beginning to no longer deliver the news to various publics. The way many social media sites work allows users to interact with one another on so many different levels that friends are reporting current events to their friends and colleagues seconds after witnessing it. China does all they can to keep social media sites from influencing their citizens life or opinions by monitoring, and screening information they allow internet browsers in China to view. This is referred to as The Great Firewall of China. But how long can China really keep doing this? Social media is expanding and is used more and more for different things on a daily basis. With China being amongst one of the world's leaders in technology they can't afford to be so naive when it comes to censoring information available to the general public.  Social media is everywhere around us, literally with FourSquare and it seems everyone is joining a new social media site every other weeks. Parents and grandparents have even jumped on the bandwagon as a way to keep in touch with their kids or monitor their behavior. With social media becoming increasingly ever more popular I am interested to see what the next big break through will be, and whether it will come from an already existing site or something new that will sweep the Web.