Is the role of socal media overestimated?

Social media is everywhere. Look around you and see it for yourself. Everybody is influenced by social media. All those ads on TV, in a newspaper and even posters about all sorts of things in school, it's not possible anymore to avoid social media. Nowadays parents talk to their children to twitter/facebook etc. It's easier to make friends with people because of these social networks. You can find people who have the same hobbies as you and talk to them. It's easier to stay in contact with your friends because if you haven't seen someone in a while you just post a message on their profile and there you are! It's possible to share pictures, videos or messages with each other so everyone knows what your up to. Besides exchanging things with friends the social media is also useful for other things. For example: some time ago there was an earthquake in China and the world knew this first because people tweeted it. China blocked twitter.com eventually but still people are very up-to-date nowadays because of these websites. Social media is global, cheap and  accesable for everyone.