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I’ll be there for you… when the media black is over

Remember the TV series Friends? Monica and Chandler, Joey and Phoebe and Ross and Rachel all getting into situations and then gathering at Central Perk to talk. We’ll here’s The Nerdist’s take on how Friends would look like if it were set in today’s time.

I wonder if they would use Instagram or Snap Chat to take pictures of the ugly naked guy who lived in the apartment across the street?
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Social Media Godzilla

Written by Terri Reddout

Like Godzilla, there’s no way we can stop social media growth

Godzilla in a scene from the film 'Godzilla VS. The Smog Monster', 1971. Toho/Getty Images
Godzilla in a scene from the film ‘Godzilla VS. The Smog Monster’, 1971. Toho/Getty Images

As a child, I used to spend my Saturday afternoons watching Godzilla movies.  Nothing could stop this monster.  Not tanks.  Not machine guns.  Not weird green gas.  Nothing.     As I recall, the people of Earth never defeated Godzilla.  He’d just get tired of all the destruction and mayhem and would quietly sink back into the ocean.

While pulling information for this blog I was overwhelmed with the growth of social media and how it’s infiltrated all aspects of our lives.  It made me think of those old Godzilla movies.  Like Godzilla, there’s nothing out there that can stop the growth of social media.

As a broadcaster, I immediately became aware of how social media democratized the spread of information.  Now anybody can spread information about anything they want. Like in this video, Science of Godzilla, a young man expounds on the scientific flaws with the 2014 movie version of Godzilla.


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