Social Media

This is our first discussion topic for blog assignment. The topic discussion is about how this new "Social Media" phenomenon is affecting your life and the lives of the people around you. This video below is for our topic's reference.

This video is about the invention of ice cream and then the icecream developed into something big, something more, and also something miscellaneous. Simultaneously with the development, the usages of icecream also multiply. Now we change the icecream as the media, the people as the social, both of them are something that related each other. This video is an illustrator to help us understand about social media,

First of all, we have to know what is Social Media?

Social Media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable communication techniques. The term refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media)

From my opinion, social media are media, means, or tools with high performance and user friendly system for human to communicate with another human or even world. In other word, Social Media is our need to interaction to the outsiders.

consciously or not social media already become our primary needs and help us in many kinds of situations. Example of a famous social media that we often used, for communication : facebook, twitter, blogspot, bebo, cyworld, etc, for multimedia : flickr, deviantart, photobucket, etc, for entertainment : games online, tv online, etc. All this kinds of media have the same purpose, which is for communication and interaction.

Now we will talk about how this new "Social Media" phenomenon is affecting your life and the lives of the people around you.

we do not doubt the greatness of social media. It affects every layer of society. Each second of your life already affecting with social media, either you realized or not. I need social media, you need it, every people need social media. Basic example how this great invention affecting our life

Have you ever in 1 day of your life not touching any of social medias? 

Even when you still in a womb, you already need a social media for your brain development. You can see a lot of online music for baby. 

from this example you can see that although we haven't know yet about anything, we already need social media.

After we born, a baby need an education for prepare the to schooling world. We can get the education service from social media, A video for baby, a music for sleeping baby, a picture to share to the relatives and so on

Schooling world, we feel the adverse impacts. We need social media to learn something, to help us in our schooling, in our assignments. Now in study system, a lot of schools already using social media as their tools for teaching. For example, a lot of teacher using facebook to communicate to their student, they talk about the assignments, the submission on facebook. We also use a multimedia network for doing our assignments and submit it, like youtube, flickr, deviantart. 

For the examination, a lot of schools already done online exam, beside easier for the marking process, it also can safe the environment for waste a lot of papers. When we graduated from school, we search for university. From my experience, I search an university first from google. Then I found the universities' website. 

Not just to be here our work life all using social media. For example, a lot of people want to start their career but don't have enough money to begin it, what the solutions for that? Online service. 

We already seen a lot of online service like online shopping. We didn't need a place to sell our product, just create a website or a page in social network, and then put the photos of our products, we can get a lot of customers than a real shop to have. This online service very profitable for both buyer and seller. 

how about our relationship life, is it also affecting by social media? A lot of teenagers want to share their life, searching for new friends, communicate with their friends through social media like facebook, youtube, tumblr, twitter, plurk. From social media we can sharing our life and make the distance not a problem again. We sharing and caring each other through social media. We are using twitter to sharing our daily activity, we are using facebook to sharing photos, videos, and communicate to other people, we use blogspot to share our creativity in fahsion, writting, anything. This is one of a creative teenager who at first just want to share her daily life through blog, but instead made ​​her famous for inspiring many people. 

How about when we get old? Do we still need social media? 

Real example, my grandfather who already 73 years old like to use photobucket to sharing his Chinese calligraphy, and also he like to communicate with his grandchildren with skype. he filled his empty time to always update his social media life.

So the conclusion, Either we want or not, we realized or not, we understand about it or not, the affecting of social media already become our part of life. Social media become something that should not be lost. But something that we always have to remember to do is social media isn't a tool for us to do crime or any of negative things. We always have to use it properly and responsible.