(Social) Media whore

Social Media has seen a giant boom over the last few years. Stocks are rising at ridiculous numbers as social media companies keep branching out into other forms of media and hiring at an unstoppable rate. If you look on Craigslist.com, seemingly half of the job listings are for social media related positions.

Social media is at least partially responsible for keeping the economy afloat, and is one of the industries that is actually doing well in this economy. That's what you would think anyway, from the frequency with which social media appears in the news.

Seemingly every day there is something in the news about a new acquisition by a social media company, a new feature on their website, or a new facet of the company that they are debuting. The San Francisco Chronicle has an article in their business report seemingly almost every day about some social media company.

There's no denying that social media is hot right now, and that it's fueling a lot of jobs and providing a little spark for the economy, but I don't think it is going to last. Much like disco music, I fear that social media is just a fad. Right now it's hip and fresh and they're making movies about it, but it could just be a big bubble that's set to pop.