The Feldwick Factor: Hasn't media always been social?

Patrick Collister of The Joined Up Company asks: 'Why the current obsession with social media? Hasn't media always been social?' Paul Feldwick confesses that Facebook is one of his guilty pleasures and finds it genuinely new and exciting, but the 'targeted' ads on the site leave him cold.

The Feldwick Factor: Hasn't media always been social?

Paul Feldwick

Why the current obsession with social media? Hasn’t media always been social?

Patrick Collister, The Joined Up Company

OK, I'm going to make a confession: Facebook is one of my guilty pleasures. Through Facebook I learn that: somebody's shower is leaking; kids and dogs are dressed up for Hallowe'en (the Ghaddafi costume seems like a topical touch); someone is eating spare ribs in Massachusetts; people are checking in at airports; someone's off to watch TV; someone's cat is looking cross; my friends in Tallinn are having another long...

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