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::


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!



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 :)




2 comments:

  1. yup..really agree with what you had said..everything had change since we step into uni life.but with the help of social media-->FACEBOOK,its made us easily contact & made a date with our secondary friends.besides,i also blogging when something happen in my life. its made us easily record down without using pen & paper.

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  2. You're right! :)
    When I was 15(and below), I could care less about this social media... But now, my thoughts are dramatically reversed...

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