Information literacy and new media
The amount of information generated by new media is already significant and growing.
Social media applications like Facebook and Twitter create and disseminate a phenomenal
amount of information daily with Facebook users collectively creating 700 updates per
second, and Twitter users collectively creating 600 tweets per second (McGee, 2010).
These numbers, of course, include every type of post or tweet from simple one word
greetings or exclamations to much longer explanatory or narrative posts, as well as links to
outside sources, especially on Facebook