Are we blogging or are we creating our own social history? When we learned about history it was from our grandparents or in history books, the library was the number one place to find all this information and for the more recent generations, Google was a great way to find some broad ideas on a topic. Our grandchildren will know it all. Every single detail because we have been writing it for them. Historians who have come and gone and done extensive research to get even big details are rolling over in their graves.
Our generation is allowing years of people to come to see what our interests are, our dreams, our pictures, and our individual taste in music. We are engraving ourselves in the World Wide Web. Twitter allows us to let a huge audience know what we are accomplishing that day, while Facebook allows us to keep in touch with people we may not have even met. Our day to day interactions are being permanently recorded and formatted in easily organizable segments of information.
Historians in the future will have every detail, no need to leave anything up for question or giving them reason to guess. Every single detail has the opportunity and in most cases is actually recorded in full detail. Most of our friends know who we are with and what we did last night.
Reality T.V. has become a real hit the past few years and why not, we all love to know what is going on in everyone else’s lives. We want to know because of a mere interest but even to use it to compare our own lives. It is so easy to interact with people now while they are doing things. I can join a friend at a baseball game via Facebook or wish my cousin overseas a happy birthday via Skype.
Twitter, Facebook and MySpace are giving us the opportunity to make friends with people we may necessarily not have the opportunity to. We are also to keep in touch with our friends from college who moved two continents away. We are able to learn about each other’s cultures and each other’s actions. This gives us such a great opportunity to relate and understand one another. History is starting to have a whole new meaning!
By Kate Ksielka. Follow me on Twitter
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