Today marks the one year anniversary of Rebecca Black's "Friday"

Whatever you may think of the song, we think that the phenomenon surrounding Rebecca Black is one of the interesting effects that the Internet has had on media.

Never before in history was it so (relatively) easy for someone to spring into fame and infamy from what was basically a home video. In the past, Rebecca's Friday probably wouldn't have made it past a family's private VCR collection.

So yes, I'm looking forward to reading your comments about how no one cares and how we must be running out of facts to post. We at Spartz Media owe a lot of our success to social media, so I thought that this was a good stopping point to think about the good (and bad) effects of Internet fame that social networks have in our lives today.

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