What draws me to social media?

Off late I seem to be spending a lot of my spare time on social media - not just me but a lot of my friends as well, I would think. No, not just for being current with the lives of my family, friends and acquaintances, but for something more than just that. As the divide between social networking and social media reduces and one engulfs the other, I would rather bring them under one umbrella and call it 'social media'. Thanks to this revolution, I do not have to rely on the news channels with apprehensions on their very content. As a lot of traditional news channels take seemingly one sided stance on various issues, finally there seems to be an alternative for knowing the pulse of the people that truly matter. Therefore, with a customary glance to the headlines, I straightaway head to the blogs section of any news channel or to the tweets that not only provide me with the updates but also complement me with individual opinions.

Not only that, with 'group-think' at play, we get to see 'collectivism' as is evident from the on-going Telangana movement or the still in news Anna Hazare campaign. For a routine individual like me, there are more attractions to this system than the one off incidents of mis-use at least till the time even this gets completely corrupted like what has happened in the case of print revolution. Till then, happy tweaking - sorry tweeting!