Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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.

Please view this short video on Social Media as your reference.

18 comments:

  1. After watching this video from the youtube website, we can conclude that media really does affect our lives as well as people around us. For example, how the movie “Avatar” become so popular in the whole wide world and it has become the most important social topic recently.In addition,it was such a great movie,so someone could have posted it on a blog and encourage everyone to watch it, thus widen the social media among the communities. Besides, someone could have uploaded “Avatar” it on youtube or other website so that many people can download it and share it with their families, friends and relatives. This increases social media too. So, it can be seen through internet, i-phones, handphones, advertisement and many other fascinating, modern new media equipment or we can even get more information about the movie through Facebook, twitter, Myspace to have a wider social communication . Because of the advanced of technology, many people can easily get the latest news by surfing through media, especially internet. Most of the people now have their own laptops and computers as well as internet facilities at their houses in this century as most of the things now need the help of the media to make our life easier,enjoyable, sufficient and complete.

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  2. Social media can be defined as social instrument of communication. Nowadays, many people do not read or watch news, movies or entertainment via traditional media, such as television, radio or newspaper. Furthermore, we can simply surf through the internet and gets all the information by just a few clicks and a blink of an eye. For examples, we can watch movie or entertainment from “YouTube”; we can get the news we would like by follows in “twitter” and keep in touch with all the friends and their latest news through “Face book” as well. Besides, nowadays, everyone can be a writer or journalist; we will write a story about our self, sharing our thoughts, happiness and sadness to public. Whoever read on it and if there’s a story that sound interesting, they can write comments and give feedback as well; example, blogs.

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  3. From the video, I can see that these days, people have an easier way of communicating with others around the world through social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Youtube, Twitter and other related sites. With a click of a button, people can keep in touch with their friends, family, catch up with old friends and make new ones.

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  4. To: Yen Yean

    I agree with you. Nowadays, people much prefer to spend their entertainment time online than using traditional media. This is because it is easier as they can do things online with just a click of a button. Also, some people easily express themselves through online interactions.

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  5. Media affects our society in several ways and controls the direction of society .Smartphones have many effects on the society as regular cell phones. Smartphones now become famous than normal hand phones because the normal hand phones are only for communication but the smart phones also can be used for communication and other purposes such using iPod for listening to music and you can see you can take photos with it and send to you friend, and also surfing the internet and you can play games on it for entertainment. For example blackberry, iPhone, and htc.Their affect on our society and culture is mostly a good thing and it’s already very convenient. These days you can connecting with the internet any where you want. Now almost always you can stay connected with one another and with the help of using this technology we’re being able to access anywhere just in one click. For example when there are questions to be answered, one can retrieve the answers instantly by using a Smartphone Wi-Fi access to find the answer in the web. The smartphone can be addicted to, something like this was unimaginable just a decade ago, and now we find ourselves finding this new ability being the norm. One downside of being always connected is the expected requirement of having to get back to others instantly. Another downside affect is that once disconnected, one may start to feel vulnerable and unstable, from depending on the device too much With Smartphones, there is no going back. Once connected, it is hard to let go, as the experience is very addictive. One can only be free of it when he/she realizes that it is too tiring to be worth the effort of being always connected. In other words, Smartphones will be the norm in the mainstream society

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  6. Media really did affect on our lives and contributed to our daily life. It is an common way to contact consumers and companies. The company takes use of social media to link frequent customer with the new customer, and build credibility among consumers. At the same time, the amount of consumers in social media will increased fastly. Nowadays, people general use the media to communicate with each other. Such as radio, blogs face book or twitter. Meanwhile they can give their personal opinions to merchandise. Improve the brand of the company.

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  7. Yes, social media has affected our lives and has a huge presence in our everyday lives. We are now living in high technology, most people know how to surf the internet and use it well. We can communicate with friends, family, relatives through the internet. By creating an account at Facebook, Twitter, Myspace or Blogs, we can interact, exchange ideas, update status and share photos. Not only that, we can use the blog as a business intermediary. It saves cost and we do not have to travel and to rent a building.By a simple click via mobile phones, laptop or personal computers, we tend to connect each other around the world.

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  8. Social Media is affecting our life and the lives of the people around us . Media is an instrument on communication, like a newspaper or a radio, so social media would be a social instrument of communication. Social media can also understood as a group of new kinds of online media, from the website social media gives information by communicating from different varieties of media via blog ,videos etc. This interaction can be as simple as asking for your comments or letting you vote on an article.

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  9. To: Shrbaji
    Yes. I agree with you. With the new social media nowadays, its make our life more easy and simple. Just with few clicks, we can access the information we needed. It saves a lot of time. Besides, we also can connect, feedback and reply message to each other in a few second no matter how far the person are.

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  10. To Shen Bao:
    It was undeniable that social media makes our life become more enjoyable and fun. But this phenomenon leads a negative impact to society especially young generation. They are too complacent with it and leads to all their works that need to be done will be defer as well. Besides, it also will make a person become lazy too.

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  11. To: Rui

    Yes, I agree with you Rui. With media, companies can easily expand and promote their business. Using social networking sites to communicate with consumers can easily help them to make better products.

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  12. one of the most effective and successful mean to advertise or promote for something is through social media
    it needs you to pay nothing and brings you alot of customers as long as the thing you are promoting is good enough to be admired by people
    from the customer side its the most honest, truthfull and informative media, because those who promote for it through social media dont get anything in return, so they give out their own comments about something they admired or not
    and as a customer, when you read other customers comments and opinions, you will get to know whether you would like to have this product that been commented or no.
    but social media have its drawbacks for business holders because if there was a product that been likable by those few loyal customers, that means that the rest will be commenting against it which will make a negative reaction about the product and seek for what its popular
    and that doesnt mean that it doesnt have drawback for customers as well, because the variance of customers thinking and perception might make you to take the wrong decision of taking or leaving the product.
    for example, people nowadays get to know the movie comments and rate before they go and watch it. so what if the movie was offensive to a specific type of people whether by gender, race or religion and those who commented about were from a specific type of people who share the same opinion?

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  13. To: Shen bao
    Yes, media really does affect our lives as well as people around us. Popular networking sites including MySpace, Facebook and Twitter are social mediums most commonly used for socialization and connecting friends, relatives, and employees. We share what we enjoy, let more and more people complete and enjoyable..

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  14. To: Yen Yean
    It's true that everyone uses blog nowadays rather than writing diaries to communicate themselves to the social world.And, the social networking have more varieties than before so seldom people use the traditional media.But, in some part of the countries and areas, there are still people who just watch television, listen to the radio or reading newspapers as their commonly used media because there are still some area didn't really have developed technology and facilties yet.In my opinion, television,radio and newspaper do a greater job by increase social communities and can bring your families, friends and relatives as well as the social communities together and the relationship among them will be strengthen and closer.

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  15. To:yen yean
    I agree with you, even social media makes our life become more enjoyable and fun, But this phenomenon leads a negative impact to society, people will become over dependent on media, so convenient on internet, little by little, people may become lazy and unwilling to exercise their brain.

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  16. To ara-bee:
    i totally agree with you, nowadays, social media became even easier and simpler than what we can imagine. we dont need to buy boards and hang it outside like how in the video, and people dont need to go all the way to the shops to find out about its customers comments. its all in our hands, a simple click from your home and you know everything and about anything..

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  17. To ibking:

    I do agree with you that social media affects our life, and i agree with you that the most common mean of this media these days is through internet access and smart phones, but i do not agree that social media is only through using smart phones or only through internet that once its stopped there will be no more social media. till this moment i have seen some small boards on the side of some cafe's asking visitors to write comments after they have the product. people themselves promoting these products through spreading the talk among their friends and inviting them to come over. so social media can never be stopped..

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  18. To: Rui

    Yeah I agreed. Social Media brings a lot of social communications around the world. Everyone can share their ideas and thoughts through media as internet are commonly used by people nowadays.

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