In the early days, people will meet up face-to-face to spend a great time to have a chit chat or sharing their feelings and thoughts. In modern days, all these activities can be conducted through the use of social media. Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, LINE, WeChat, Skype and so on so forth are used to connect with people. This more or less has given an amount of impact towards the relationship with people. It may grew weaker, but at the same time it may grew stronger. These applications are used to connect people where we seldom or unable to meet with. With friends and love ones who are in different places, these applications are the tools to make them 'feel' each other and stay connected. While new media give us convenience to access to the outer world, they also creates some concerns to some people.
People worried that with the use of new media it change the relationship patterns of parts of community or society. From the active relationship to passive relationship, from a face-to-face communication to a face-to-screen communication. People rely on technologies to maintain relationship bonding. When people are able to meet up and talk and play, they choose to communicate through the use of media. In that sense they feel more comfortable and thinking that it saves time rather than taking a journey to a place and meet up to talk. Even worst is when a bunch of friends meet up and sitting around but with gadgets like smartphones in hand to communicate when they are just in front of your eyes. It is pathetic sometimes to see this kind of scenario. For them, lifting their eyes or giving a glance will be such energy wasting. Is it necessary to build relationship through this method?
Another is that people are concern about the identity used in media. Is it true? Or is it fake? Can the identity be trusted? Can we really trust the identity used in media? In Facebook they will also appear people that use fake identities. In Internet world, we cannot expect people to be 100% honest with what they say and tell. They may feel more comfortable without revealing much true self to another or they may have bad intentions towards people in social media. They might as well thinking that identity might be a barrier which limits the socialization between people. People create another identity in Internet world, probably to the extent that the identity will bring much pleasure and giving courage to show their hidden self where in reality they are unable to do so.
Society nowadays cannot survive without media. 8 out of 10 people would answer that they need these new media besides them or else they cannot perform their daily routines. Society are too depending on new media and causing lack of interaction between people. We should somehow reconsider about the use of new media and preventing these machine to conquer us. We are using the new media or the new media is using us? That depends on how people decide to see it.
Social network changed the way of modern society communication.
ReplyDeleteIn a relationship, social network communication is as important as face-to-face communication? I think yes. Friends around me are already communicating more often in social network rather than face-to-face communication. Feeling more comfortable to communicating in the social network compare to the face-to-face communication?
Maybe in five years later, University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) can offer a new course named Social Network Communication under the Communication studies Department? Who knows?
I can't deny the convenience social networking have bring to us. But I always hold the mindset of Facebook, whatsapp, Line and other else cannot exactly deliver what I want to express. Unless it is urgent case, chit-chat with long lost friend or short message to deliver, I am more prefer to face-2-face discussion. It can exactly express what is on my mind and avoid unnecessary misunderstanding. I am prefer to use Skype! This another form of face-2-face discussion.
DeleteI still remember the time when using MSN to connect with a friend who is currently studying at Peninsular. I prefer face-to-face communication as well as I can perceive better the information that they wanted to tell me.
DeleteTotally agree with this. Is quite similar with my opinion in previous post. It's quite sad to see nowadays people are prefer to spend time with the phone rather than human. We are not using phone to make our life more convenient but we have became the slave of all those technology.
ReplyDeleteQuite cool if our faculty offer the social network course in our communication department. Sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteOMG...
ReplyDeleteThen it would become more terrible I think...
Maybe more funny? Who knows? Haha
Deletehie jing Kuok I strongly agree with you.
ReplyDeleteWow!!! Sound cool and love it.
ReplyDeleteRegarding offering a social network course, i share the same opinion with @Valerie. I believe the course is offered to serve as an awareness purpose. Not to teach students on how to use social networking, but to learn more about how society percepts this kind of phenomenon, and what is the impact to the future society.
ReplyDeleteThat would be interesting.
I think with the invention of new technology, we socialize more, but in a bad way. It gives us more opportunities to gossip or talk bad about bad people. Sometimes we just do not know when we need to stop, and eventually become very self-centered.
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