This
week we learn deeply about what is social media. I never really thought about
it until now that I come to learn that social media are websites, tools or apps
that allow users to share and participate in social network. I was surprised to
learn that phone is social media, I thought that social media are only websites
such as Facebook, YouTube and other apps that most people used . It may sound
crazy but I come from an island where technology is not yet become a big deal.
The most and available social media in my island is Facebook. We do not use
twitter, Pinterest or most of the most popular apps that the Americans use
these days. I had never know there is such thing as Facebook messenger until I
came here to Hawaii. However, after the class discussion this week I came to
discover how little I know about social media. If we could go back at the time
with technology it was barely used by people whereas compared to this time,
people can hardly live without technology. I find it very interesting the
article that was written but Clifford and how they think of the future with
technology. They thought it could never work for these new generations, but if
we look around technology had become a part of each and everyone's life. And we
can also see how much social media had influence our life. I remember the first
time I was introduced to using internet it was when I was in high school and
everyone was using this websites call Bebo. All the students was talk about it
in school and so I give it a thought and I sign up for it. After a while, we
heard that Bebo will be deleted for good and that is when I start heard people
talking about Facebook. Then I join Facebook at 2005 and what interesting I had
never used it so much back then as I had used today. And I can see the
difference and how true the speech that was given by the lady in the TED Talk.
Although social media is a good thing and it helps us to keep in touch with our
family and friends all over the world. But if we took a second and really think
about it, Facebook, Netflix, Youtube had take up so much of our time. It
isolates us from the world, and we spend less quality time with our family.
However, I think it all comes down to our choice and how to use these apps.
These tools, and websites will never go away like Brian Kinghorn quotes,
"technology can't live without it, can't kill it" but we can learn to
minimize how often we use it and to use them only for good purposes.
