Social Media

What is social media?? Social Media are designed to interact through social interaction, using high technology publishing techniques. Social media uses web-based technologies to transform and broadcast media monologues into social media dialogues. Social media have been modernized to reach consumer's needs in a new way especially through the internet. Social media have become appealing to big and small businesses. Let us take Twitter for example, it has expanded its global reach to Japan, Indonesia, and Mexico, etc. Besides Twitter, there are many other popular networking sites such as Myspace, Facebook and Windows Live Messenger (MSN) are the most commonly used for socialization and connecting friends, relatives and even employees.

Obviously nowadays u can see many people started to use Facebook as their main source of communication among their friends. As the number of Facebook users are increasing,it influences them to use other types of software to communicate with each other such as the 'Winndows Live Messenger' or 'Skype'. I totally agree with it. Futhermore, i realise that not only teenagers or young children are interested in this kind of social media, even elderly people also are interested in this. For example my father also have an Facebook and Twitter account and he seems to like it very much. Almost everyday he will sit in front of the computer table and start Facebooking. Besides that, even lecturers and tutors post videos or announcements either in Youtube or Facebook, i'm kinda impressed with their knowledge about Social Media as deep as teenagers or young children. This shows that they are updated to what is happening around them.

Besides Facebook and Twitter, there is another type of social media that most of the users used nowadays that is 'Blog'. A 'blog' is a type of website usually maintained by an individual that is called blogger, with regular entries of commentary descriptions of events, or other material such
as graphics or video. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as a personal online diaries. It creates the ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Actually this is my first time blogging as a blogger. Before this I feel that blogs are boring and it takes a lot of our precious times on writing
a blog. So might as spend that time on our studies than blogging.

But on the other side, I realised that social media are not only helps in the good side but it also contributes to the bad side. I feel that most of the online game users misused online game as the social media tool. This is because when they are communicating with each other, they prefer to use vulgar words more than proper language. So I feel that it ruins a person's moral value and they will take that as their main communication language and use it on other situations in the future.

In conclusion, social media has a lot variety of ways of communicating with each other and has its own pros and cons. Therefore, we must choose wisely on which type of social media that suits a certain of a person. Even though it helps us to stay connected with people that far from you, knowing each other with just a click and faster way. But if it goes out of control then there will
be a lot of problems occur in the society and leads to misunderstanding among each other. Therefore we must think wisely before we move on with it.