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Yesterday I was thinking about when I first started college. I graduated high school in 2004 and went to Seton Hall university. I hadn’t chose a major but I lived in a dormitory on a floor with all the communications majors. I can specifically remember a conversation with my friends and floormates about how they were worried about finding jobs after they graduated. I agreed with them that things didn’t look promising.

Looking at it now that conversation seems unbelievably stupid. There’s more media outlets now than there’s ever been. You can build your own media outlet from scratch on Wordpress or Youtube. Plenty of people have and plenty more will.

But remember this was 2004 when we had this conversation. When I was thinking about this I asked myself was I really that stupid? How could none of us have seen this?

Back In 2004

Fast Forward back to 2004 for a minute and think about it with me because chances are you don’t realize how much the world has changed since then.

Back in September 2004, when I started college, Myspace was the social network of choice, before the phrase “social network” was even on the radar.

Blogs had been around for awhile but were nowhere near as popular as they are now.

Facebook was .edu for college students only and hadn’t even reached Seton Hall University yet.

What about Youtube? Non-existent. The first youtube video wasn’t uploaded until April 2005. That’s close to two full school years after we had that conversation.

Twitter? Nope. Not until 2006.

So looking back on it maybe we weren’t that stupid. Maybe we just didn’t realize the how quick the world was changing.