Melisa LaBancz-Bleasdale

Feature Article

Social Media Madness - Does Everyone Need It?

In our constant quest for “faster, better, newer,” we have invented, embraced, and quickly discarded social media mechanisms at a blistering rate. In a few short years we went from simplistic Friendster, to the “all me all the time” model of MySpace, to the Twitter temple of the content averse.

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