Social media refers to online tools that allow people to communicate, share content, and engage in online discussions. These tools include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, podcasts, and sites to share photos and bookmarks. Social networking sites allow users to create profiles and connect with others through tools like messaging, forums, lists of friends, videos, images, and tags.

5. Social Media: Society & Citizenship

7. ~The Conversation ~ blogging, commenting or contributing - the currency of social networking.

8. Social Media: Another Paradigm Shift? The Iceman thought his world would never change – until the refrigerator replaced him.

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10. "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future” Niels Bohr

11. Over the ages, Many People have Feared New Technology

12. “ The free access which many young people have…has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth.” Reverend Enos Hitchcock, Memoirs of the Bloomsgrove Family, 1790

14. “ This new form of entertainment has gone far to blast maidenhood……… Depraved adults with candies and pennies beguile children with the inevitable result” Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1909

16. Speaking of phone conversations.

41. One Technologic View of the Future: Transhumanism

42. Are social networking sites for society?

43. http://socialnetworking.procon.org/#Background

45. Short case study….my son.

46. Band Aid For Haiti

47. BAND AID Published: Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:03 PM EDT Ryan Brannon, a senior at Saltsburg Senior High School, received a plaque from Red Cross volunteer Rache Station honoring him for his fundraising efforts for the Red Cross. Brannon raised $1,125 for the Relief Fund for Haiti through a recent band benefit that featured 10 local bands and attracted more than 250 guests. Tom Peel/Gazette photo BAND AID

48. Social Media (Facebook) in the Classroom

52. “ We are moving from an information age to an OPINION AGE . ” Warren Sack, Associate Professor, Film & Digital Media School, University of California, Santa Cruz

53. “ The social landscape is emotional Transparency and authenticity are not emotions.” Brian Solis - digital analyst, sociologist and futurist

56. Are the Social Networking Wars Over? ….. http://cultureslurp.com/2010/10/20/5-reasons-why-facebook-won-the-battle-of-the-social-networks