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100 Portraits: A Creative Journey
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Introduction
“The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.”~Bill Gates
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Joy comes from building bridges to other lives. This construction occurs invarious shapes and magnitudes. Sometimes it is in the form of a handshake, phone callor simply a smile. Sometimes it is in the form of a text-message, poke or tweet. Ourdigital age allows bridges to be constructed, connected and traveled faster. The overalllength and size of our bridge is no longer limited to the tangible realm. Distances areeroded. Our joys are shared via email, blogs, forums, vlogs, podcasts, text messagesand social networks. We have constructed social media, a hyper reality of constantconnectivity. Our potential is limited by our imaginations as our lives construct the digitalbridge to “the global village of tomorrow.”From
FaceBook
to
YouTube
to
Twitter,
social interaction websites continue totransform the landscape of contemporary communication. Once a niche interest, socialnetworking sites now connect millions of users each day. In fact, over 270-millionInternet users are registered on at least one networking website.
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Only a daily basis,users share content, update profiles and interact on friend’s profile pages. Additionally,over 73% of Internet users read blogs to stay informed about the latest trends, news,and information relevant to a viewer’s life.
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As users increasingly intermingle on various
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Gates, Bill,
www.quotegarden.com
, visited September 24, 2008
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West, Edward, Marketing Potential in Social Online Media,
Business Day
, May 20, 2008
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Ibid.
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