Millenials are easily influenced

This week's topics were interesting. I noticed being on social media ALL of the time, that opinions are now easily swayed since everyone is looking at what others think. Content is being watched way more than it is being created. Influencers or opinion leaders are shaping the planet and honestly have no scientific reasoning or any formal training to support their wild beliefs or observations. For this particular blog I skimmed down my Twitter timeline to find a few post from opinion leaders. I personally think in order to be an opinion leader you should have a following of at least 10,000 people on  Twitter or at least 5,000 Facebook friends. I think its quite comical that the people many millenials are very opinionated, share sexualized content and are attractive. If you have Twitter feel free to look at a few of the tweets I looked at as well. The first Twitter account that I observed was a young lady @lipstickthvg, lipstickthvg has gained lots of social media exposure from having a cute face and voluptuous body. Lipstickthvg has 40k Twitter followers. Most of her following is men. Many of her post show off her nice figure and are simply funny Memes. A while back lipstickthvg had a thread about homosexuality that received alot of backlash and upset a few of her followers.  Because most of her following are heterosexual men, her followers were not offended enough to defriend her.  Another follower I observed is a close friend of mine, @iamsmokeybear Smokey is a rapper, who enjoys indulging in cannabis. His fan base are stoner teens across the US. Smokey has 10k followers. On his Twitter he promotes his music and talks about marijuana. Both lipstickthvg and iamsmokeybear have used their strengths to become social media success. Gaining their following may have been strategic or they may have simply gained fans over an a period of time. Since lipstickthvg and smokeybear have fans across the world their opinions reach people at recording breaking time. For instance if I share one of iamsmokeybears post my cousins in Detroit will be able to hear his music although he's a Georgia rapper. I believe most of the time we are being influenced by people and things with out consciously knowing it. I have also noticed that being able to identify with a person on one subject makes me more susceptible to their other beliefs and in return I press the retweet button, simply because I "like" them. I read some interesting facts on The Impact of the Internet. MIT conducted a study that suggests evidence shows that the Internet neither isolates people nor reduces their sociability; it actually increases sociability, civic engagement, and the intensity of family and friendship relationships, in all cultures.
MIT also stated: Globally, time spent on social networking sites surpassed time spent on e-mail in November 2007, and the number of social networking users surpassed the number of e-mail users in July 2009. Today, social networking sites are the preferred platforms for all kinds of activities, both business and personal, and sociability has dramatically increased — but it is a different kind of sociability. Most Facebook users visit the site daily, and they connect on multiple dimensions, but only on the dimensions they choose. I personally know that their research is true. I would much rather communicate on social networks with my friends about topics they have posted on their social media than via text. The internet is a one stop shop for everything entertainment. At night it's so easy to spend countless hours being influenced rather than actually going to sleep. Last week I noticed I had stop thinking solely on my own and decided to take a week long hiatus from social media. During my time away I found myself sneaking to check on some people via their social media sites, rather than  just calling them or meeting face to face. If you've ever found yourself spying or posting a picture in hopes of getting someones attention, you're easily influenced by social media.