[authorme] PUBLISHING EMERGING WRITERS, FEBRUARY 2015

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*Social media and Author-me.com*
*by Bruce L. Cook*




*
Author-me.com started in 1999. It was a writing display
site and was in competition with Writing.com while the Internet was new.
These and few other websites permitted writers to post on the Internet. Readers
had minimal chances to comment on each other’s articles and stories.


While writing.com <http://writing.com> allowed writers to comment on
each other for a fee, author-me.com <http://author-me.com> made
deliberate efforts to have authors comment on each other’s works for
free. Surprisingly,
it became evident that while each author was vitally interested in reading
comments on their own works, they were not inclined to bother with commenting
on stories by others writers.

By 2004, the writing sites were replaced by a new concept, social
media. Mark Zuckerberg of Harvard University established Facebook.com.
At about the same time, alternative
social media websites MySpace (founded by Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson)
started, along with Odeo’s Twitter.
By 2006 Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams and Biz Stone were
discussing the idea of using text messaging to share statuses, etc.
These form the basis of today’s postings.[i]
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possible to view the timeline for websites on the Wayback Machine
(https://www.archive.org/ <https://www.archive.org/>), but recently
Facebook made its traffic record invisible, probably due to
privacy concerns, for the Wayback Machine allows viewers to see exactly what
Facebook published on multiple dates in the past. Presently Facebook
members spend as much as 10 hours daily on the website, which has 310
million viewers daily. Twitter, on the other hand, has 22 million
viewers per day. (Data from Google Trends, 2011, and “Nielsen
MarketWatch, 2004.
Much of the information on social media is personal and spiritual.
However, there are times
when this new media force has become part of the international scene. More and
more we hear of social media postings which comment on distressing international
events.
A major advantage of these websites is their instantaneous reporting
of a new thought, issue, or even an incident. In cases where
government censorship blocks legitimate news, social
media can provide an eyewitness account. This undermines censorship by
repressive governments, and helps to inhibit false propaganda. Since the reports
are immediate, there’s much less chance of bias in reporting. In cases when
such reporting is extreme, it’s possible for other witnesses to
contest and correct
the original posting.
This is the self-correcting feature of social media. Given that
extreme viewpoints can be damaging to productive dialogue, it’s
typical for extremist views to be followed by
contrary comments, thus leading to more useful conclusions.  This can
facilitate dissemination of a new piece of knowledge, a new issue, or
a new peace initiative.
In either case, social media can be seen as a peaceful tool that can
make it possible to achieve
justice and harmony in today’s world.
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[i] 
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 Bilton, N. (2013). Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power,
Friendship, and Betrayal. Penguin. Chapter II, Section Status, Pages
55-58.*


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