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I have been remiss in commenting about social media in general. I have been spending an inordinate amount of time learning about and using social media. I now tweet. I'm on Facebook, have been for quite awhile. I also use Social Browsing, which is part of Firefox. All this in the name of education. Obviously, I have a blog. I initially thought I needed to learn everything I could so I could share the knowledge with my media class at Roosevelt.

It's been interesting that's for sure. Everyday I learn something new, a little trick about how to get my page(s) to look better. Better ways to connect and share info. New sources for info. All great stuff. I find my passion for social media to be much more intense than that of my students.

Although with social media I thought my students, who are mainly in their mid 20's would be embracing and using social media at an alarming rate they were actually quite blase about it. They didn't want people (friends, family, stalkers) to know where they were and what they were doing. Interesting. Granted this a focus group of 25 but still, weren't they the ones everyone thought was using this medium. Huh.

They all heard about it, some tried it, some did use it, but not often, and some just outright refused to use it. Again my tiny focus group did prove that the ones who were using it mainly had jobs and used it at work. Another interesting tidbit. Proving yet again that folks will use any outlet they can to chat about their jobs, bosses and the endless inequity that comes along with those two things.

So now the question is, are only celebrities, middle-aged people and media folks the majority who are using these things these days?

I guess we'll find out as more marketers explore these venues to target consumers, and they force their hand to find out exactly who these people are and why they take part in social networking. Stay tuned!