How Social Media Will Change the World

Here's a very interesting article from Lifehack on how the concept of social media sites like Digg will most likely influence major areas of our lives and basically change the world:

With a very simple concept, Digg.com has changed the fundamental nature of the news media and how millions of people access information. Digg (and its fellow social media sites) democratized the media, and wrenched control of what gets read from the gatekeepers of print and broadcast corporations and gave it to the people. Now, argue about whether this is good or bad, but it’s now a fact of life.

And someday soon this concept will spread to just about every area of our lives, from politics to entertainment to business to … you name it.

Get ready for the democratization of everything, like it or not...

Read the article in full here.