News Feeds
Modern day media has definitely changed in the past couple of years going from Snapchat only being a personal platform for daily videos and pictures of your night out on the town to a daily news source for friends, family, and society as a whole. Snapchat has transformed its platform into a one stop shop, although we all think of Snapchat as a "selfie app", Snapchat has begun to transform our lives. On the single platform you are able to reach your closest and furthest friends, track all of your Snapchat followers, access local and nation news stations, read digital well known magazines and keep up with the famous socialites. Snapchat claims to have reached "90 percent of all 13-24 year-olds and 75 percent of all 13-34 year-olds in the U.S." Although this is very impresses, this also goes to show that millennials are more likely to hear about the latest news on snapchat rather than on TV or through the local newspaper. On the other hand, Twitter is more of a personal news outlet. Personally I love to go on Twitter and look at the funny memes, but the thing that I dislike is the constant "contaminated" news (as I like to call it) being spread around to teenagers and young adults who will believe anything that they read. Twitter is more likely to have fake news due to the fact that it could be commonly mistaken for a blog. People post information that they hear from their friends and then share it on social media until it becomes viral and then causes harm when it is found to be falsely stated news. Unlike Twitter, Snapchat is updated regularly by well-known publishers and magazines around the world. Not that any social media news is good, "about 60% of US adults who prefer getting news through social media said they had shared false information."
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