5th estate?

nearly there.

So the "5th estate" this new social media thing we've all been hearing about en mass for the last decade is finally turning out to be of some use, admittedly I'm not a social media user, this is the first blog i've ever posted on i think, and lets face it, the internet hasn't lacked due to my absence.

With facebook constantly up the ass of every business and politician on the planet it can be easy for the public to get right up there too, and even easier to make your complaint a resounding cry of the community. " now how do i do that?" you ask yourself, well that's simple find something to complain about, do you drink a lot of soft drink? is it ruining your teeth? well go to the coca cola Facebook, complain aggressively, wait till they take it down, and then go right to 60minutes, you just earned yourself $5,000 for a BIG news story and opened the door to a class action lawsuit against the most successful soft drink company on the planet.

Sounds glib doesn't it? depressing? like a really sad way to spend your days? well this is just the douche bag way of doing it, but basically, its exactly how it works.welcome to the 5th estate. the death of actual journalism and the birth of big brother.

Well that's OK, this big brother is more like Homer Simpson than George Orwell's ominous overseer, this is just you finally being able to put the boot to companies and politicians and make them accountable for themselves