MJ and Farrah’s Death Proves Social Media rips control away from the media by Jerry Hart

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Jun
25th

By Jerry Hart

Two icons leaving on the same day. Wow. Farrah Fawcett is gone now too. She was so beautiful… and did you know she had the #1 selling poster in history. Hey, I had one. So many emotions about both of these icons dying on the same day and the pervasive use of social media to know what’s true. It’s more than irony to me.

Tantric Tweets and Frantic Facebooking proves the real story can get to you faster than traditional media.

Lindsay Lohan: NO OMG … sending my love and prayers out to Michael and his family … i feel sick..

Marlon Wayans: My prayers, my love, my heart goes out to michael jackson and the entire jackson family. I pray so hard for them. I’m crushed! Please pray.

Do you check the news online often? I do.

On Twitter, my Michael Jackson tweet was re-posted by friends many times over. Some just mere minutes after the news broke.

In the past, this type of news would have taken hours to get out to the general populace. Now every single person online today is a new influencer and has the ability that only news reporters and media had earlier. Its a phenomena.

Only in a social media controlled world would we see a Twitterized “revolution” in Iran, and the breaking news (or perhaps a hoax) of Michael Jackson’s death. Again, no news outlets have reported on Jackson dying from the heart attack as of 6:20 pm EST.

Just 30 minutes after the news broke guess what the number one search being conducted on Twitter is RIP Michael Jackson. Twitter is quick! Check it out yourself by doing a real time search! We have already ‘tweeted’ this story along with the millions of others!

Facebook and Michael Jackson

Have a look at your Facebook newsfeed right now. Notice how many people have made this their status update? In my own account, 12 out of 15 updates were about Michael Jackson’s death. Never before have we all had an open forum to discuss events and items on our mind as we do now thanks to social marketing sites like this.

Youtube

YouTube was very slow today with video uploads tagged with MJ’s death. I guess when Google says Youtube is user generated content, their not kidding. Either, they took too long to approve the story as real or the story was so shocking it must have paralyzed an otherwise fired up video contributor to YouTube.

Wikipedia

Less than an hour after his highly speculated death, Wikipedia already has a disclaimer on their site stating the Michael Jackson wiki page is about someone who recently died and that some information may not be accurate. They have also put a ban on any editing of the page. Who needs to wait for information anymore?

The big difference between this news items and the other deaths listed here is that there will be a much larger reservoir of knowledge to be spread to us all and many more voices speaking about it.

Back when Diana and Elvis died we still had just the traditional media outlets to depend upon.

Michael Jackson’s death is a very sad thing. But an event like this has clearly shown the power of social media and the evident rise we will all watch over the years to come.

Let the conspiracy theories begin - x1000 - thanks to social media and the widespread availability of information.

As we close, lets give one big welcome of applause for BING, Microsoft’s new search engine. As of 4.5 + hours after his death, there was no mention of even a rumor of his death. Say what?

Did Microsoft BING drop the ball in their coverage of the passing of Michael?