Social Media
Social Media has come a very long way, as the technology steps ahead more people now have the urge to use social media tools to socialise rather than picking up their phone dropping a text. In my schools days we use to socialise by meeting up and exchanging text messages. There was nothing like sharing a picture, sharing your location or even tagging people. I guess it all comes in good time and we never know what will come in the near future?
Social media offers platforms that everyone can use freely, it gives people the opportunity to share information among themselves in any way very easily and the level of interaction is very high because your contacts to which your message is been carried is always online (at the computer or via mobile phones). In the moment when you send a message, the person on the other side receives it and the conversation goes on.
Knowing this innovative and easy method to mobilise people, people can organise meetings or protests via the internet where every other people online can find out about it and get all the information. This has made the world very communal in the sense that these social media platforms give young people the chance to communicate instantly among themselves and so easy that events happening miles away from locations of other people can be shared online for everybody. Wherever you come from, you have the possibility to know what is going on and even comment about it. What a world we live in now! We have no privacy left!
In the old days when events happened at one place, it would take a while before people at another would find about them but now through social media, events and news are known worldwide in split seconds after they are shared and this has made the world one. Take a look at the events in the Arab world and recently England. Information among young people to mobilise themselves was the work of social media and even the whole world got to know about events in those places. Besides the political dimension, social media is also a way to find friends and find out about people that you have not met for a long time.