I had to laugh at Brett's post over at CopyBrighter, simply because I'm a product of the 90's (since that's when I was a teenager). In his post Brett compares current social media phenomenons with ideas from the 90's. His post really illustrates that there really is no "new" ideas, just old ideas put in a different bottle. Especially interest to me was the comparison between YouTube and America's Funniest Video.
It just further illustrates the idea that social media is about the people. People like video taping themselves and being "viral stars".
I think a great follow up to this would be Social Media in the 1950's. Maybe we could get a team of Social Media allstars to do a "I Love Social Media in the 90's" and be the next VH1 hit show.
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