Hello readers. :)
What are your thoughts about this topic;
'ARE BLOGGERS JOURNALIST?'
There are some people really thinks that these two words are the same. Well, it is not entirely true though...
They both uses writings. They both have some topic to speak. But the differences is their content and perspective point of views...
The journalist usually publishes their information at radio, televisions, news paper and magazines. They required all of their information on many sources and not one of their own actually.... They will updates on current issues on sports, world, politics, people and anything around us... Moreover, they are paid to do so by a large company but sometimes, they can be wrong at some issues...Come on, they are human aren't they? Well, people tend to make mistakes. Jurnalist is not just people with pen and paper... Photographers, graphic artist and page designers are also called journalist...
On the other hand, the bloggers are an indipendent individuals that expresses their thoughts and feelings (either negative or positive) towards to what is going around us through blog in the internet.... The bloggers post blog and critic about an issues is because they are very passionate about it and not about making money. For example, whenever the journalist review something and it is wrong, the bloggers might give a 'bit of their piece' which can provoke the authorities to make some consideration on the critical issues.
Although the blog are only on the internet, it's limitation towards readers are because most of the people now are an internet user.
So, the thing is.....Blogger's thoughts and views are not to be taken lightly. They might have more considerable thoughts though....
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
ARE BLOGGERS JOURNALISTS?
First of all, can you differentiate blog and journalism?
Here are the definitions of blog and journalism from Wikipedia:
Blog is another word for weblog. A weblog is a website that is like a diary or journal. Most people can create a blog and then write on that blog. Bloggers (a word for people who write on blogs) often write about their opinions and thoughts.
Journalism is a type of writing. The term is used to describe the activities of newspapers, news shows on television, news shows on radio, and news magazine.
In my opinion, bloggers are not journalists. Anyone can be a blogger as long as they have a blog but not everyone can be a journalist. Blog and journalism are similarly the same as they have a variety of genres and themes. Yet, what differs a blog and a journal is the content.
Bloggers write out their interest and what they know on a particular topics. Normally, they will give their opinions and comments on the topics they write. So, blog is not only the media to tell the news, story or information to the readers, it is also a way to share and interact with the readers. Unlike journalism, the blog readers can express their thoughts and feelings by commenting the blog. Since there is no restriction on blogs, bloggers tend to write what they think and they don't have to care about the grammar and language they use. They can keep their own 'styles' of writing in their blog.
As for journalists, they have to find reliable sources and do researches before they write journalism. In the process of writing journalism, it should include when, where, who, what, why and how. The journalists are supposed to write out the facts even though sometimes they will get it wrong. They do analysis and expected to give opinion in unbiased way. Although blogs and journalism deliver message or information and achieve the same result, the readers should judge the reliability of the journalism or blog on their own.
As a conclusion, I don't think that bloggers are journalists because journalist is a profession yet blogger can be considered as a flexible job.
That's all from me. ciao.
Here are the definitions of blog and journalism from Wikipedia:
Blog is another word for weblog. A weblog is a website that is like a diary or journal. Most people can create a blog and then write on that blog. Bloggers (a word for people who write on blogs) often write about their opinions and thoughts.
Journalism is a type of writing. The term is used to describe the activities of newspapers, news shows on television, news shows on radio, and news magazine.
In my opinion, bloggers are not journalists. Anyone can be a blogger as long as they have a blog but not everyone can be a journalist. Blog and journalism are similarly the same as they have a variety of genres and themes. Yet, what differs a blog and a journal is the content.
Bloggers write out their interest and what they know on a particular topics. Normally, they will give their opinions and comments on the topics they write. So, blog is not only the media to tell the news, story or information to the readers, it is also a way to share and interact with the readers. Unlike journalism, the blog readers can express their thoughts and feelings by commenting the blog. Since there is no restriction on blogs, bloggers tend to write what they think and they don't have to care about the grammar and language they use. They can keep their own 'styles' of writing in their blog.
As for journalists, they have to find reliable sources and do researches before they write journalism. In the process of writing journalism, it should include when, where, who, what, why and how. The journalists are supposed to write out the facts even though sometimes they will get it wrong. They do analysis and expected to give opinion in unbiased way. Although blogs and journalism deliver message or information and achieve the same result, the readers should judge the reliability of the journalism or blog on their own.
As a conclusion, I don't think that bloggers are journalists because journalist is a profession yet blogger can be considered as a flexible job.
That's all from me. ciao.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Are Bloggers Journalists? --- o.O???
Here come the 2nd topic--- ARE BLOGGERS JOURNALISTS? WHAT DO YOU TAKE ON THIS?
For me, blogging is not journalism.
In this digital age a lot of people get their information and news from internet including blogs and journalism.
As my opinion, bloggers and journalists aren’t exactly the same. Blogging is certainly a newer type of writing style. A blogger writes out of passion, out of an extreme interest for a particular topic such as their daily feeling or some gossip. So when I ask :"how many of you have a blog?" I am sure that out of ten people nine hands went up! This is because most of the bloggers tend to write what they know, think and feel. That why its attract more people to read and write through blogging.
If I am blogging about my own opinions and feelings, and I am clear about the fact, then it doesn’t matter what I write. It’s whatever is happening inside my own head, and people are forewarned.
Meanwhile, journalists are supposed to give facts, and unfortunately don’t always get them correct.
Its not same as blogging, you don’t have to wait for the editor to review it and then wait for the next day for it to be printed in the newspaper, its just type and click post and you’re done. That’s the new form of journalism, not so much the “blog”. Through journalism, it is held to the higher standard because if you don’t like the content or nature of discourse it promotes you will not read it. As a journalism, they takes some skill, however I do believe they play a fairly important role in providing sometimes useful or interesting information, via the web and I always considered journalist as writers. As we can see, many traditional journalists have made a significant investment in their careers, in educational and financial terms. There is no barrier to entry with blogging.
On the other hand, most of the journalists were being told what to write about and had no interest in it. Basically this is the main difference between journalism and blogging to me. Journalism is there to inform others and the reporters get PAID to do it. Blogging however, its feel comes from the heart. People blog to inform sometimes but are definitely not getting paid for it.
For me, blogging is not journalism.
In this digital age a lot of people get their information and news from internet including blogs and journalism.
As my opinion, bloggers and journalists aren’t exactly the same. Blogging is certainly a newer type of writing style. A blogger writes out of passion, out of an extreme interest for a particular topic such as their daily feeling or some gossip. So when I ask :"
If I am blogging about my own opinions and feelings, and I am clear about the fact, then it doesn’t matter what I write. It’s whatever is happening inside my own head, and people are forewarned.
Meanwhile, journalists are supposed to give facts, and unfortunately don’t always get them correct.
Its not same as blogging, you don’t have to wait for the editor to review it and then wait for the next day for it to be printed in the newspaper, its just type and click post and you’re done. That’s the new form of journalism, not so much the “blog”. Through journalism, it is held to the higher standard because if you don’t like the content or nature of discourse it promotes you will not read it. As a journalism, they takes some skill, however I do believe they play a fairly important role in providing sometimes useful or interesting information, via the web and I always considered journalist as writers. As we can see, many traditional journalists have made a significant investment in their careers, in educational and financial terms. There is no barrier to entry with blogging.
As a conclusion :
Bloggers write because they want to. Journalists write to get paid, because it is their job.
Are bloggers journalists?
Everyone can be a blogger nowadays, but not every blogger is a journalist. If they are, it will make everyone a journalist and the privilege becomes meaningless- who is to be trust? who is to be blame for the rumours?As such, I take my stand that a blogger is not a journalist.
As social media are gainng popularity among the younger generation nowadays when compared to the mainstream media, it is undeniable that bloggers do provide us information in a short time. However, it should not be forgotten that bloggers tend to pour in their emotion inside their article and hence might result in bias of stand.
A journalist, on the other hand is different.They are trained as a professional that collects and disseminates information in the most objective and unbiased way to serve the public good.They are paid to deliver facts, and also prepared to accept legal responsibility.
Imagine this situation: someone announces that tomorow is a public holiday on his/ her blog, will you trust this information? Well, most of us will still refer to the school/ goverment autority for comfirmation as we think it might be a joke by some prankster. The same goes to whenever we saw a blogger updated a major breaking news (such as a natural disaster/war) , we will still refer to the mainstream which is the article written by journalist for comfrimation.
Much have been argued about bloggers being journalists. In my opinion, a bloggers cannot be journalist. However, i do think it is a healthy trend that the bloggers are taking their blogs seriously, which shows that they are concern about the society around them.Along with that, it had also put some pressure on the journalists to deliver better because they are now under close observation and facing a fiercer competitor- the bloggers!
Monday, March 29, 2010
~ARE BLOGGERS JOURNALISTS?~
ARE BLOGGERS JOURNALISTS? What is your take on this?
Here comes the 2nd topic.
First, for me, a blogger of course is a person who write blog or author of a blog, while a journalist is a person who write article of news that could be in newspaper or magazines.
There is many kind of blog which it is up to the blogger what they wanted to blog. A blogger can blog about their daily life, things they interested in, or sharing things. Blog can be like a diary, sharing sites and more, but it doesn't works like a journal. Journalist collect and distributes information, it works is like a reporter.
A journalist even have a journalism degree(which have been stated in the article of blog.nj.com first line); while everyone can be a blogger as long as u register and open an account to blog. Journalist more on reporting the current event, trends, or people, which most people interested in; a famous topic or issues. But a blogger, the things they blog is wide range, and need not to be a hot or famous issues, and it could be untrue stuff, they also can blog anything they wan to share, such as their daily life which only few of their friends may interest in.
So my conclusion is bloggers are not journalists. Thats all from me by now. Thanks. =D
Here comes the 2nd topic.
First, for me, a blogger of course is a person who write blog or author of a blog, while a journalist is a person who write article of news that could be in newspaper or magazines.
There is many kind of blog which it is up to the blogger what they wanted to blog. A blogger can blog about their daily life, things they interested in, or sharing things. Blog can be like a diary, sharing sites and more, but it doesn't works like a journal. Journalist collect and distributes information, it works is like a reporter.
A journalist even have a journalism degree(which have been stated in the article of blog.nj.com first line); while everyone can be a blogger as long as u register and open an account to blog. Journalist more on reporting the current event, trends, or people, which most people interested in; a famous topic or issues. But a blogger, the things they blog is wide range, and need not to be a hot or famous issues, and it could be untrue stuff, they also can blog anything they wan to share, such as their daily life which only few of their friends may interest in.
So my conclusion is bloggers are not journalists. Thats all from me by now. Thanks. =D
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
ARE BLOGGERS JOURNALISTS ♥
ARE BLOGGERS JOURNALISTS? What is your take on this?
Did u ever came across to read somebody blog everyday or every week? Honestly i did read some blogger's post, i made it as my daily must do stuff. Due to my curiosity and interest to know about the blogger's life, that's why i read their blog. Can bloggers consider as journalists??
I'm not agree that bloggers can be consider as journalists. As we know, most blogger blog about their interest, daily life or even gossip around. It's more on their own feelings and their thought. Journalist will be someone who write for newspaper or magazines, talk about the happenings event and issues that surrounding us. Therefore there is a difference between blogger and journalists, we can't consider blogger as journalists, because the content and way they both write are different.
Blogging can be a trend too, more and more people start to have their own blog. If you want to be a blogger, it's easy, you just need to open an account in any blog site, like blogspot, xanga, wretch, myspace and other. You will automatically become a blogger once you start to post a blog. For a journalists, it can't be that easy, you need to write about something that is happenings or hot issue, the grammar and the way you write must be in a proper and formal way. Blogger doesn't care about their grammar, as long as people can understand and get the message is enough already. Even myself who own a blog, and so called myself as blogger, doesn't care about my grammar mistake that appear in my blog. This is the difference between blogger and journalist.
Hence, bloggers are not journalists. =)
Bloggers and Journalists...
Hello again! This week’s discussion is as followed:
ARE BLOGGERS JOURNALISTS? What is your take on this?
Blogs are no longer uncommon in the world in the present time compared to the past where expressing one’s thought are put down in paper and pen. Since the advent of blogs and bloggers, so did its population. The numbers of bloggers have increased rapidly with the help of social media sites such as blogspot.com and many more. More and more people are able to express their thoughts and share it with others. However, I don’t think that bloggers are journalists.
The reason is because that bloggers are not certified or authentic writers as compared to journalists. Bloggers mainly write what they themselves feel about certain issues whereas a journalist’s job is to report facts and solid information to the public. Information supplied by bloggers are not always as trustworthy as the information they blog about is not based on solid facts, but rather based on their own opinions.
Besides that, bloggers write because of their interest only or rather like a hobby. "A blogger writes out of passion, out of an extreme interest for a particular topic."
Like myself, I blog about things that interests me and how I feel about it. Journalists on the other hand, make a living out of writing and in a way journalists could be considered as a much more professional writer than just normal bloggers. So all in all, I don't think that bloggers and journalists can be put on the same level because bloggers are not journalists. Well, this is just my take on this week’s discussion. That’s all for now! =)
ARE BLOGGERS JOURNALISTS? What is your take on this?
Blogs are no longer uncommon in the world in the present time compared to the past where expressing one’s thought are put down in paper and pen. Since the advent of blogs and bloggers, so did its population. The numbers of bloggers have increased rapidly with the help of social media sites such as blogspot.com and many more. More and more people are able to express their thoughts and share it with others. However, I don’t think that bloggers are journalists.
The reason is because that bloggers are not certified or authentic writers as compared to journalists. Bloggers mainly write what they themselves feel about certain issues whereas a journalist’s job is to report facts and solid information to the public. Information supplied by bloggers are not always as trustworthy as the information they blog about is not based on solid facts, but rather based on their own opinions.
Besides that, bloggers write because of their interest only or rather like a hobby. "A blogger writes out of passion, out of an extreme interest for a particular topic."
Like myself, I blog about things that interests me and how I feel about it. Journalists on the other hand, make a living out of writing and in a way journalists could be considered as a much more professional writer than just normal bloggers. So all in all, I don't think that bloggers and journalists can be put on the same level because bloggers are not journalists. Well, this is just my take on this week’s discussion. That’s all for now! =)
Friday, March 19, 2010
Bloggers = Journalists? no ~
ARE BLOGGERS JOURNALISTS? What is your take on this?
From the quote above, I guess this is the reason why journalists tell these 'facts' to make money.
After reading the 3 links given by Ms. Helena, I personally don't think that Bloggers are Journalists.
Just like me, I blog to share my views and opinions about something, but everyone have their own views. You cannot say that what they say are true just because you think it sound true or you agree with it. Some people say that everything a journalist writes about are not considered to be 100% true or reliable. Even though they are supposed to prove something true, but they will sometimes prove the wrong fact. When it comes to blogging, everyone have the freedom to blog, they blog just to share their opinions, thinkings and feelings about something. Just like what Chris Pirillo has said
Bloggers write because they want to. Journalists write to get paid, because it is their job.
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Here's another quote I've found that I tend to agree with it.
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. - Arnold Bennett
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From the quote above, I guess this is the reason why journalists tell these 'facts' to make money.
So, in my opinion, I won't consider bloggers as journalists because bloggers can write whatever they want but journalists have to tell facts to people.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Social Media::After we post and tweet, you comment and like
‘Cannot live without food for 7days, without water for 3 days,
cannot live without facebook for a day!’
This wallpost had immediately trigger okui_lala (a.k.a me!) to like his status on facebook and not within a minute,there are 6 likes and 8 comments on his wall post
How does social media affect our lives?
Well I guess this phenomenon explain much of it :)
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I’m a self-proclaimed technology noob, the latest gadgets in town wouldn’t quite flag an interest on me (except camera :p). The same goes to these social networkingsites- which seems ridiculous to me at the beginning.I used to think that, to depend on an application to maintain or build our relationship is an insult to us. Are we that bad in socialising to the extend that we need a non-living gadgets to help us?
So, that was the story 2 years ago, before I graduated from high school where I can easly see my friend in school everyday. But now, I got to admit that things changed. Looking back at my facebook wallpost today, I just realised that I have just ‘commented’ on 7 friends post, liked 6 friends status/photo and accecpted 3 friends request.
A quick reality check after I had sign out from the virtual world::
Is this social media good? Or bad?
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Facebook
Well, at this moment, I got to say that, besides taking away around half an hour (ok, maybe an hour) from our daily life, facebook, does ‘facilitates’ me a lot.
And when guys and girls like my age were ask to comment about social media, the 1st thing that come in mind to us is ……..Facebook! ( I bet that almost 99% of our coursemate will have the word ‘facebook’ mention at least once in their media culture blog!) So, is not hard to imagine how facebook is that popular right?Here goes the list::
Twitter
Although currently I still speak human language and do not 'tweet', I do follow certain friends and celebrity's tweets. Short, direct, fast and cute, it is to me, a contemporary blog for the millenials , the 2nd generation of sms.
Blogging
It wasn’t until 2 years ago that I strated to blog. It was a photo blog at 1st, to share my photos and gain comments from other photographers. It is indeed an ideal platform to improve myself, as I was overwhelmed by the visitors and comments on my blog which in turns push me to do better. And then, when I realised that these strangers actually read what im saying, I have more to say. :)
Without realising it, my perspective toward social media have change- to the bright side. I've got to admit that, Im too, caught in this popular trend.On the other side, many would say that these social networking sites have a lot of potential danger. However, just like any other service, the key to use social networking sites depends on the user itself. Restricting ourselves from social networking sites is unnecessary and would close off one’s access to an important space. Rather than sensationalizing the dangers, we need to educate and be educated about the positive aspects of these valuable benefits over social networking.
So, all I can say to myself and everyone there is::
Be a Smart user!
The assets is just a click away :)
How does social media affect our lives?
Well I guess this phenomenon explain much of it :)
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I’m a self-proclaimed technology noob, the latest gadgets in town wouldn’t quite flag an interest on me (except camera :p). The same goes to these social networkingsites- which seems ridiculous to me at the beginning.I used to think that, to depend on an application to maintain or build our relationship is an insult to us. Are we that bad in socialising to the extend that we need a non-living gadgets to help us?
So, that was the story 2 years ago, before I graduated from high school where I can easly see my friend in school everyday. But now, I got to admit that things changed. Looking back at my facebook wallpost today, I just realised that I have just ‘commented’ on 7 friends post, liked 6 friends status/photo and accecpted 3 friends request.
A quick reality check after I had sign out from the virtual world::
Is this social media good? Or bad?
.
.
.
.
.
Well, at this moment, I got to say that, besides taking away around half an hour (ok, maybe an hour) from our daily life, facebook, does ‘facilitates’ me a lot.
And when guys and girls like my age were ask to comment about social media, the 1st thing that come in mind to us is ……..Facebook! ( I bet that almost 99% of our coursemate will have the word ‘facebook’ mention at least once in their media culture blog!) So, is not hard to imagine how facebook is that popular right?Here goes the list::
1. Able to stay in touch with my ex-schoolmate and distant relative ( no one can deny this fact!)
2. Able to know the people around us better- friends/ lectuter (* this apply only to certain extend)
3. Finding like-minded people:: from status/ photo posted, we can guess what type of character he/she is
4. A good platform for publicity::Without advertising fees!More and more professional this fact and that’s why there are so many fan page available.
5. By joining certain group, newsfeeds helps a lot by keeping me update!
2. Able to know the people around us better- friends/ lectuter (* this apply only to certain extend)
3. Finding like-minded people:: from status/ photo posted, we can guess what type of character he/she is
4. A good platform for publicity::Without advertising fees!More and more professional this fact and that’s why there are so many fan page available.
5. By joining certain group, newsfeeds helps a lot by keeping me update!
Although currently I still speak human language and do not 'tweet', I do follow certain friends and celebrity's tweets. Short, direct, fast and cute, it is to me, a contemporary blog for the millenials , the 2nd generation of sms.
Blogging
It wasn’t until 2 years ago that I strated to blog. It was a photo blog at 1st, to share my photos and gain comments from other photographers. It is indeed an ideal platform to improve myself, as I was overwhelmed by the visitors and comments on my blog which in turns push me to do better. And then, when I realised that these strangers actually read what im saying, I have more to say. :)
Without realising it, my perspective toward social media have change- to the bright side. I've got to admit that, Im too, caught in this popular trend.On the other side, many would say that these social networking sites have a lot of potential danger. However, just like any other service, the key to use social networking sites depends on the user itself. Restricting ourselves from social networking sites is unnecessary and would close off one’s access to an important space. Rather than sensationalizing the dangers, we need to educate and be educated about the positive aspects of these valuable benefits over social networking.
So, all I can say to myself and everyone there is::
Be a Smart user!
The assets is just a click away :)
.Social Media.
In my opinion, ''social media'' phenomenon affects our life a lot. It is very common to everyone especially the younger generations. As you can see, i'm doing my assignment through blogging!
I remember my first email account was created during Form 1. I was kinda outdated as most of my classmates chat in msn everyday. We only use email to share info to each other. Then, blogs and social networking site like Friendster and Facebook are getting popular during my high school life. The social networking sites are easy to operate thus people can share many pictures and thoughts. Nowadays, the most common phrases that can be heard around are "Add me in fb!", "Tag me/you/him/her!", " Today i haven't twitt yet...." and etc. Sooner or later， the popular social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and Skype will replace email.
I would say that social media makes our life more simple. We can share anything we like to everyone with just a few clicks in the website. Sharing is caring. =) There are many ways for us to get the latest news and info and communicate with the people around the world. Thanks to Skype, I get to talk to my uncle in the US whom i never see for the past 18 years.
Okay, that's all from me. Until then, bye. Hope you enjoy our 'coffees' in Mediakopitiam. =)
I remember my first email account was created during Form 1. I was kinda outdated as most of my classmates chat in msn everyday. We only use email to share info to each other. Then, blogs and social networking site like Friendster and Facebook are getting popular during my high school life. The social networking sites are easy to operate thus people can share many pictures and thoughts. Nowadays, the most common phrases that can be heard around are "Add me in fb!", "Tag me/you/him/her!", " Today i haven't twitt yet...." and etc. Sooner or later， the popular social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and Skype will replace email.
I would say that social media makes our life more simple. We can share anything we like to everyone with just a few clicks in the website. Sharing is caring. =) There are many ways for us to get the latest news and info and communicate with the people around the world. Thanks to Skype, I get to talk to my uncle in the US whom i never see for the past 18 years.
Okay, that's all from me. Until then, bye. Hope you enjoy our 'coffees' in Mediakopitiam. =)
Social Media---o.O???
For me...Social Media is, at its most basic sense, a shift in how people discover, read, and share news and information and content for the whole world.
At the beginning, its start with a traditional media such as newspapers, television, books and radio, social media has changed the way in which the world receives and views information. It is a best understood as a group of new kinds of online media for us. It also allows our communities to form quickly and communicate effectively such as the MSN and Facebook.
Through the help of social media, we can share our common interests,such as a love of photography or a favourite TV show. As we can said that the term of social media is used to describe the use of today’s technology to distribute information and encourage people to connect with others who share a common interest. Moreover, its allow users to actively participating in sharing information through comments, discussions, reviews and networking via text, graphics, audio and video. Internet tools allow users to actively participate in sharing information through it while the world once start relied on.
Thus, social media is a strange brew of Technology+People+Organization+Freedom. Miss an ingredient, and you are cooking something diffferent.
~Social Media~
TOPIC DISCUSSION 1
Discuss how this new "Social Media" phenomenon is affecting your life and the lives of the people around you. Real-life examples would be good.
Talk about "social media" it sure will relate to facebook, msn, blog, ym(yahoo mail), etc. "Social Media" exist quite a long time, I can't remember since when I have a facebook account which I didn't actually use it after I register it and few year after that, I start to be active in it when I got an internet line in home, that is around last year.
Peoples use social media to express themselves, which some of the people they do not like to talk about themselves but they express themselves through facebook, msn personal message, or blog; which we also like to go others blog to read what happened to our friends nowadays. And sometime we find that the different style of our friends which they didn't show in the public.
"Social media" is actually also a kind of way that can save money to communicate with peoples around the world, because it is free of charge, for example, my mother contact my uncles or aunts who live in America and Brazil by using msn video call, chatting or maybe emails, without need to pay bills like long distance calls.
Social Media really affect a lot in our life, for examples, some of them use blog to replace writing diaries everyday; in the past we do not have the life which spending most of the time in a day to online using facebook or msn, now we always did it; we gain knowledge, learn things, receive information through social media such as emails, youtube, facebook, etc.; and also we can share our knowledge, or everything through social media as well.
Last thing is social media do really can bring a group of peoples who share the same interests together. It happens in my life which I have a group in facebook who brings all the peoples who like to play dance machine together, and through it we know each other and we have gathering together and enjoy the same interest together, and become good friends, while the groups grows larger and larger. This is really something amazing because at first I really do not expect that social media can use in such way as well.
That's all from me, sorry if the things I write is too messy and long.>_<'' Good luck to all, stop here.
Discuss how this new "Social Media" phenomenon is affecting your life and the lives of the people around you. Real-life examples would be good.
Talk about "social media" it sure will relate to facebook, msn, blog, ym(yahoo mail), etc. "Social Media" exist quite a long time, I can't remember since when I have a facebook account which I didn't actually use it after I register it and few year after that, I start to be active in it when I got an internet line in home, that is around last year.
Peoples use social media to express themselves, which some of the people they do not like to talk about themselves but they express themselves through facebook, msn personal message, or blog; which we also like to go others blog to read what happened to our friends nowadays. And sometime we find that the different style of our friends which they didn't show in the public.
"Social media" is actually also a kind of way that can save money to communicate with peoples around the world, because it is free of charge, for example, my mother contact my uncles or aunts who live in America and Brazil by using msn video call, chatting or maybe emails, without need to pay bills like long distance calls.
Social Media really affect a lot in our life, for examples, some of them use blog to replace writing diaries everyday; in the past we do not have the life which spending most of the time in a day to online using facebook or msn, now we always did it; we gain knowledge, learn things, receive information through social media such as emails, youtube, facebook, etc.; and also we can share our knowledge, or everything through social media as well.
Last thing is social media do really can bring a group of peoples who share the same interests together. It happens in my life which I have a group in facebook who brings all the peoples who like to play dance machine together, and through it we know each other and we have gathering together and enjoy the same interest together, and become good friends, while the groups grows larger and larger. This is really something amazing because at first I really do not expect that social media can use in such way as well.
That's all from me, sorry if the things I write is too messy and long.>_<'' Good luck to all, stop here.
Social Media
Hello~ ^^ Sory for the long post.... It's okay to skip... I really can't stop typing! >,<
This post is about something that is common to almost everyone in this world, that is social media. Although it is popular among us, but do we actually know what this thing can do?? Or do we really know what is 'social media'?
Okay, personally to me, social media is a media which can be used to communicate with each others. For examples: internet forums, web blog, microblogging, wikis, podcast, social bookmarking and etc. This media can connect not just the people in our state or country, it can connect us to the people around the globe. I am impressed to what these media can do though. But, it can sometimes disrupt our daily time management... It happens to me... Sometimes :( I was somewhat hypnotized by my own laptop! Can you believe it?! Im its owner for god sake!! It was like I don't want to let go of my laptop...It is scary.. Uuuuuuuuuu~ Frankly, the social media is how we keep in touch with the people around us. We intent to keep up-to-date with them. So that's why we usually spent more time in front of the mediums (computer/laptops etc).
By the way, do you realize that people in this 'social' world usually use their false name and false personal information?? This is because they wanted to protect themselves from the online criminals, that is true. But there is also another reason why they kept doing this. It is because they wanted a second life. They usually wanted a better 'them'. Here's the example... There is this game called 'The Sims' Have you heard of it? The latest sims are 'the sims 3'.. Hehehe, promote2x. :p) It's a social game which we all have our own avatar( Not the blue avatar....) and we can control it to do whatever we want....Do like the normal people can do. Buying cloths, talking to people... What?? Where's the special you say??? Haha, well, in this game, people often do something that they can't do or afraid to do so in the real world.....
So, the social media is a playful media that can bring us close together... At the same time, it can shows who we really are.... ;) -end-
This post is about something that is common to almost everyone in this world, that is social media. Although it is popular among us, but do we actually know what this thing can do?? Or do we really know what is 'social media'?
Okay, personally to me, social media is a media which can be used to communicate with each others. For examples: internet forums, web blog, microblogging, wikis, podcast, social bookmarking and etc. This media can connect not just the people in our state or country, it can connect us to the people around the globe. I am impressed to what these media can do though. But, it can sometimes disrupt our daily time management... It happens to me... Sometimes :( I was somewhat hypnotized by my own laptop! Can you believe it?! Im its owner for god sake!! It was like I don't want to let go of my laptop...It is scary.. Uuuuuuuuuu~ Frankly, the social media is how we keep in touch with the people around us. We intent to keep up-to-date with them. So that's why we usually spent more time in front of the mediums (computer/laptops etc).
By the way, do you realize that people in this 'social' world usually use their false name and false personal information?? This is because they wanted to protect themselves from the online criminals, that is true. But there is also another reason why they kept doing this. It is because they wanted a second life. They usually wanted a better 'them'. Here's the example... There is this game called 'The Sims' Have you heard of it? The latest sims are 'the sims 3'.. Hehehe, promote2x. :p) It's a social game which we all have our own avatar( Not the blue avatar....) and we can control it to do whatever we want....Do like the normal people can do. Buying cloths, talking to people... What?? Where's the special you say??? Haha, well, in this game, people often do something that they can't do or afraid to do so in the real world.....
So, the social media is a playful media that can bring us close together... At the same time, it can shows who we really are.... ;) -end-
Friday, March 12, 2010
Social media
how this new "Social Media" phenomenon is affecting your life and the lives of the people around you.
In my own view, this ''Social Media'' phenomenon has really affect many people's lives. Almost ALL the people I know has their own account on the social media sites.
The popular social media sites I can name are Facebook, Twitter, Cyworld, Myspace and YouTube. Friendster which is also a social media site used to be very popular when I was in my secondary education like 3-5 years ago. But now, Facebook has totally taken over Friendster's popularity. It's obvious that the sites which I've mentioned above are popular among the younger generations, but now, it is even popular among the older generations! Even my parents have their own account on Facebook. Haha.
Social media sites not only brings people closer together, it also make us know someone better. From what I've noticed, some people 'act' differently in the virtual world. What I mean is, they tend to open up themselves more than in the real world. Some people are emotional in the virtual world because they like to share their feelings. Sometimes you'll be surprised at the things they post on the social media sites.
I guess I should just end my review here :)
Social Media ♥
What came across to you, when you first open your computer? Log in your Facebook account or your msn and etc?? Yeah, i bet everyone giving me the same answer, even you didn't notice that you actually repeating the same things everyday.
Social media has it's own power to affect people life, they can take over your life, or even control you. Can you dont sign in to your facebook for a week or a month?? You will said "No!!!" Somethings that you rely on it to get the latest info, you will not said no with it, without it your life will be hard. Same things goes to myspace, twitter, youtube and etc. It's already like a part of our must have items in our daily life.
People connecting with each other using all these social networking site, sharing the different info between each othert. But there's a part of people over use these social networking site, they can abandon their works and family. Even it is very useful sometimes, but it doesn't mean that it will always bring benefit to everyone, there will be a lot of negative impact too.
Thus, social media brings a lot of impact to the society. but i believe it is depends on how the user use it. =)
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Discuss how this new "Social Media" phenomenon is affecting your life and the lives of the people around you. Real-life examples would be good.
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Social Media
Well hello everyone…hahaha. Guess I’ll be the first one posting reviews on our first assignment. =)
“Discuss how this new "Social Media" phenomenon is affecting your life and the lives of the people around you. Real-life examples would be good.”
First of all, I wouldn’t say that social media is exactly a ‘new’ phenomenon because social media has been going on around for quite awhile. In fact social media has been around for the past 5-7 years ago or longer. I say 5-7 years because I had my first Friendster account when I was in Form 2 or so. So that’s like about 6 years ago. However, social media only has gained much acknowledgement in recent years as more and more people are beginning to become aware of it and realize the potential of social media in influencing the society. Social media is affecting almost every portion of a teenager‘s or a young adult’s life. The best example would be social networking site Facebook. Social media is definitely affecting our lives greatly in a way that it is almost impossible to find someone (teenagers and young adults) who does not have a Facebook account. Plus, I know for a fact that most of my friends and myself included must log in to Facebook every day. It has become some sort of norm for us in fact.
The social media phenomenon is still growing and companies have turned to social networking sites and other social media to reach out to consumers. Thus, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that one day (very soon perhaps) social media will have the ability to control us. This is also because social media is able to meet almost all our needs. For example, Facebook and Twitter meets our needs for social interactions, Youtube meets our needs for entertainment, and blogs meet our needs for expressing our thoughts and many more. In short, social media has a large impact towards today’s society especially among the younger generation. Social media has become a trend among us, a very popular trend that will probably be here to stay for a long time.
Well, that’s all from me. Until the next discussion! bye-bye! =)
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