Is social media a fad?

From watching a video on youtube listing all the different fun facts about social media I realized how vast and consuming it really is. It had said if facebook were a country it would be the third largest, behind China and the US. 100 million users in less than a year. The times will change from now on, like it said the news and advertisements no longer have to be sought out. Everything is at our finger tips. More people have watched a video on their phone or tv on their computer than people watching tv on a traditional television. You can tweet, flickr, post on facebook and myspace from anywhere at anytime from mobile devices. They dont even need to be high tech smart phones. Just through text you can send in pictures, post statuses, and comment back. Another awe-inspriring fact is how the population of Ireland, Norway, and Panama combined is not equilvalent to the amount of tweets Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degenerous have posted in the past couple years. This shows how consumed we are in these sites. The population is not only growing fast, but it is also beating out other websites in the process. Newspapers are suffering from this, no longer are people having papers dropped off in the morning or buying subscriptiong online, they have them on Kindle or iPhone or iPad or AOL etc.