Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Social Media + News = Good News

Social media is a great tool. Its many facets allow us to be anything we want to be. We have a plethora of information literally at our finger tips. A few buttons to press and you can find out anything you wish. Social media has allowed your everyday run of the mill people to become "reporters" of a sort. They have an outlet, a blog, vlog, tumblr, twitter, etc., and use it to bring news or information that interests them to light. I believe that the quality of news and information has been greatly increased since the rise of social media. Some people spend time finding things out, either reading/watching “normal” news, such as CNN, Global, CBC, etc., and then comment on it, review it, analyse it. Then, people that would not ordinarily have seen the original news now have the opportunity to, since it is now more available to them in a place they frequent more often than news websites. Social media helps news spread – and rapidly at that. A single tweet can spread around through retweets and favorites like a virus, allowing this quick information to be utilized by thousands of people who will then take it and post their view on their own facet of social media. The younger generations on the internet – the teenagers – don’t want to go on the Globe and Mail website and read articles, it doesn’t interest them. However, through following vloggers on YouTube, seeing posts on BuzzFeed, or simply wandering around on the web gives them glimpses of events that are currently occurring around the world. Hopefully these small blips of information will inspire them to learn more. It is great that social media allows so many more people to be actively involved in the happenings around the globe.
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  1. Unknown13 February 2015 at 18:08

    You obviously have your opinion and point of view, and I can say that i am on the same page with you. Since all the applications we use nowadays are been used by different people, news go viral, and individuals get more involve of what is happening around the world. People are more informed now than they use to be in the past.

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  2. Unknown15 February 2015 at 15:33

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  3. Unknown15 February 2015 at 15:37

    I concur with you, nowadays we find the information at our fingertips, and anything that we want to know is available in moment. There are lots of new source are available for spreading the news, and are invented every day. but the information may wrong or and its different than the actual one, and some people may edit wrong information, and share that information with us, so its negative point for the quality of news. So according to me there are many source for updating the information and it allow everyone to update the information and gave chance to become authors, editors, and publishers but quality if information may or may not good.

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  5. Unknown16 February 2015 at 21:04

    I enjoyed reading your blog! You proved some good points when speaking about the lack of interaction the younger generation has with the traditional news sites and this is when social media steps up and keeps everyone involved. My only concern is the quality of information and if it represents pure truth? But I guess we could only assume the same from traditional news. I wonder what the news will be like 10 years from now..

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