Bee’s culture or what is social media…
First, social media is a fancy thing. Do you have a Facebook account? Not? What can we speak about…?
Almost everybody has few blog accounts. Almost everybody stores and comments pictures on Flickr or other photo-sharing sites and even publishes videos on YouTube.
Suddenly most of the people became creators. They can write stories, shoot video and pictures, and this activity is FREE. The can unite into communities and comment each others creative activity. You don’t need to pay for these wonderful opportunities. You don’t need to study how to paint, how to write and publish and how to shoot films. Nobody can prohibit you to do this. Amazing! It’s freedom! Individual don’t need to have any printing press to deliver its precious thoughts to the reader (user). Individual don’t need to spent money on renting working place, buying paper, paints, etc.
But stop. Is the epoch of social media really so great as it seemed few years ago? Who is reading theses tons of shit stuff produced by millions (billions?) of creators? Though for many people social media still seem miracles, first wave of joy is slowly disappearing. As a result, more and more “research” questions do appear. Who is paying for these free tools? Do authors of Wikipedia work for free? Do Wikipedia authors remind bees delivering honey to restless capitalists? What shall we do with of all this stuff, called by Danish researcher Soren Petersen a “looser generated content”?
Well, there is no simple and direst answer on these questions. Even more, nobody is going to refuse from these amazing tools. Nevertheless, we can see that the social media reality is much more complicated and ambivalent.
