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The blurry lines of social media
Is social media making us more anti-social?
We often praise the greatness of social media, but in our excitement we sometimes overlook the dark side of social media .With boundless power, comes great responsibility. We need to take the responsibility to look at, question and try to understand the role of social media in our lives and our societies.
I don’t see anything wrong with social media or social networking , more especially since it has become a great platform for public relations practitioners to build sustainable relationships and maintain effect communication channels with their desired target audiences , however I must emphasis that there is so much communicated outside of text. Stats have shown that only 10% of communication is spoken through actual words, the other 90% comes through our tone of voice, our physical gestures, subtle eye movements and other things that a computer or cell phone cannot interpret, or represent .Honestly speaking, people are spending more time indoors than before, and when outdoors, they’re forever on their phones having meaningless conversations with people they barely see. Social media is slowly reducing face-to-face interaction, something needs to give…
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indeed it is important, not for the fun of it but it can be used as one of the bussiness'communication platform, PRPs can use it to spread the information, artists can use it to update us(as their fans) on whats new and where are they going to perform,in that way companies benefit.
ReplyDeleteSocial media does give various organizations a platform to interact with their stakeholders, what I’m saying is that us (the user of the media) turn to substitute everything around with social media, and this intern makes us anti-social. For example: you’re at a party, then you update your Facebook status pointing out how bored you are, meanwhile you’re surrounded by ten thousand people. Face-to face interaction is no longer appealing to most .
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