How do you use social media?
I express my thoughts through social media and I find out other people’s thoughts from there. I read news and meet with friends. It is through social media that we can meet those old friends from childhood and reconnect. However, in social media we have met con men that sold us dubious deals.
A place to market
Social media is a useful tool for marketing because there are so many people there. Almost everybody that has smart phone has a social media account, may it Facebook, whats app, twitter, linked, mastodon etc. In Facebook you create awareness to a large number of people.
A place to brag
Social media is a source of self-pity and anxiety. People flashes in social media, they post nice places, nice cars and family and when you are not very well, you can feel like a failure because you will have an impression that your friends have advanced soo much. However, what most people will post on social media will not always match their reality.
A place to reconnect
Almost everybody is in social media, and so if you want to know whether your friend still exists, you can search them through social media. It is a place you can find people you have long lost in touch and seek to reconnect with them. However, social media can be so passive such that people dies and leave their image on social media such that you cannot tell whether they are dead or arrive. I have a case where i kept asking my college friend to call or text me and i wondered why they were not responding. i later learnt that they died two years ago but they left their flashy life on social media. They were people that looked successful but they died in misery. Therefore, social media can give false positives.
A place of ideas
Social media is a place where people express their ideas, tell us who they are and what they do. In fact, there is this habit of some employers stalking your social medial profiles to get a grips of who you are. In social media, we post our daily activities and so people can use social medial to decipher who you are beyond your professional outlook. But i dislike people who uses social medial to make professional judgement about workers because people should be let to be and have freedom of expression. Professional judgement should be confined to the work related contexts and the walls of an office.
communication tools
social media is usually used by people to drive their political, cultural or religious agendas. Even terrorists could use social media to advance their terror agenda and recruit others. Social media has also been used to bully people and tarnish their image. This is because social media is a platform where people can communicate freely and with anonymity.
related topics
lated Topics
- Introduction to Communication
- Communication Models
- Non-Verbal Communications
- Persuasive Communication
- The art of listening
- Levels of Listening
- The art of note taking
- The art of public speaking
- Organizing a speech
- supporting your speech
- Understanding team dynamics
- Information Literacy