Social Media Isn't That Social
By Brian Salkowski
The role of a early aged millennial was quite simple looking back at it now. The social norms of today would blush in guilt at the social norms of yesterday. It was roller skating and malls. Corners and stoops. Movie theaters and a time to meet a friend or date. Then suddenly things began to get technical for lack of a better word. While the president of the United States was having his own meetings in his oval office with a young intern, the internet was born. After all, if it wasn't for the internet, The Drudge report would not have materialized and Bill Clinton wouldn't of been the target of Ken Star. In 2001, just as a young Mark Zuckerberg was probably entering college, America paused. On September 11, 2001 terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into the twin towers & the Pentagon. Over 3,000 people were killed. Everything was about unity then. America banded together under the leadership of an incoming Republican president. It was the millennials Pearl Harbor moment. Everyone knew where they were and what they were doing when those horrific events took place. There was even, for a week or two, no MTV no VH1 it was wall to wall coverage of the attack on our homeland. Aside from a few college sociology professors, no one would notice a looming shift in the culture. A shift that seemed to be so fitting for the everyday millennial.
