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Saturday, August 11, 2018

The Amazing Power of Social Media

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At home with my kids bonding with them with a feel of a whole day, whole night day, because of the gloomy, rainy, bed weather. But I had the chance to take a moment, a break from school work and was able to seat back and relax watching KBO at home. Just wanted to share, I had never seen this movie…”Ang Dalawang Mrs Reyes,” before. But you know what? It’s really worth watching. It stars veteran actresses JudyAnn Santos and Angelica Panganiban. The story was actually about two wives who discovered upon revelation of their husbands that they were gay (but there was another label put to “De Vera), in this movie. Here, it was shown at first how Santos and Panganiban dealt with heartaches and pain. But as the movie progresses, you will see the other side as well. At the end, there was acceptance and forgiveness. If I may relate this to the subject I’m handling right now…”Media Foundation,” there was an obvious presence of Social Media under the different types of Media. Santos after knowing that despite the plan to ruin the marriage of her husband to another man, she wrote an open letter using her social media account. Surprisingly, within 24hours it reaches a lot of people and got too many shares. Santos somehow after airing her sentiments to a former gay husband gained sympathy to the people in the social media. Never did she realized that this medium was too powerful that later on, almost put her former husband’s boyfriend in danger, not to mention making her daughter vulnerable to shame and public humiliation.



The use of the social media in particular is an effective medium nowadays to reach out for hundreds and thousands or even millions of people to share and air our sentiments and without knowing connecting with strangers made them feel directly what we’re going through. Thus, also reminding all of us to “think before we click,” because it comes with both good and bad effects to all of us.
Social Media, is a new form of communication growing from the usual face to face interactions, and group communications. It has a wide reach connecting with people that we know personally and for people who are completely strangers to us. Thus, there is a constant reminder that we have to be responsible all the time in using it as our very medium to communicate.

The existence of social media, gave us so much benefits in sharing messages and information in an instant from where you are and to the whole world too who has connection to the internet.  From places you’ve been to, while sipping your favorite coffee, a celebration of important occasions with friends, family, and work related activities were shared using this powerful medium.
Recently, I made an examination and included the power of this medium in my sections in Grade 11 for their midterm examination and asked my students if in this era, the labelled “millennials,” could survive living without its presence?

I’m getting different answers from this question, most of them said they can live without it citing several reasons like they can make conversations with their families and friends personally, some would play basketball, dance or even sing.

Are we saying that we are becoming dependent on the use of social media? Certainly, I must say Yes. But at some point we can live without it. It goes without saying that without it’s presence we will all go back to the traditional means of communicating, like that of sending and receiving snail mails, a personal interaction with friends, families and relatives too. But this time, immediate change is something we have to be careful with, as to the venue of a certain meeting place. The use of landline phones will be of great demand again, a personal visit to every possible libraries for research, personal appearance when interviewing people. Our generation has so much to offer today and even has a better plan to make each and everyone’s life more convenient when it comes to reaching more people. Everything comes with a certain purpose, the bottom line is to communicate faster and more effectively, of course having an entertainment at the same time.


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