Etta
James, and R&B singer, died today from a battle with leukemia. I did not
find out about her death from a music channel on TV or the radio. I found out
about it through a CNN story shared on Facebook. While I was at work I
overheard two young women talking about her death and how they read about it on
Twitter. I think this is proof of how people, especially college age students,
use social media to get their news. Even if the story did originate with CNN
more people probably saw the story on their newsfeed or timeline.
Even
though her death was what people saw they had to go to the website to read the
story so that they could get a cause of death. I think that this is what makes
social media great. If you want to find out about something you don’t have to
comb through a physical newspaper or news website. Just look on your trending
topics on twitter to see what’s grabbing people’s attention. And that’s usually
how I find out about news.
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