Is social media isolating the audience?
This week we take a closer look at Facebook, and the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's increasing use of it. It claims to have 750 million users worldwide.
One in five webpages opened in the US is a Facebook page.
So, what happens to more conventional listeners who don't wish to sign up to the digital revolution?
This a question prompted by Alex Lee, who writes in with her fears that by choosing not to become a member of Facebook, she is being left out of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú conversation.
To answer Alex's fears, and also to have a more general discussion about social media, I'm joined by Julian Siddle, a Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú science programme maker, who has been dealing with social media since the very beginning.
Julian strongly argues the case for Facebook, highlighting the fact that the social media conversation will be happening anyway, so it would be foolish of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú to not engage with it.
Rajan Datar is the presenter of Over To You.
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Comment number 1.
At 21st Sep 2011, Piet Boon wrote:I heard the speaker say "if it is already out there on Facebook...", ouch.
If that is the reasoning for the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú to stop publishing own webpages, why not also close this blog. What do you say, oh, you just did close this blog.
Time for me to sent a bucket load of emails to the powers that be.
Ciao blog, RIP
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At 19th Oct 2011, Melanie wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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