Impacts of Social Media (blog 4)

What is currently the status of the end user?

Social media has become a trend in our lifestyle especially youngsters. It even affect the older generation like my dad's generation as he has a Facebook account himself. There are certainly pros and cons in social media. We use social media to connect with other people and foster our relationship with family and friends; however, it might be the other way round. Majority of us are active user. We use social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter particularly all the time as can be easily seen during lunch time, most of us is on smartphone scrolling on their social media site.

What impact will the audience have from social media?

Nothing is perfect same goes to social media. We all know how social media have helped us in different ways, unfortunately, it has a big impact on our lifestyle as in the way we want our lifestyle to be the same like those superstar or those famous people in the world. People tend to compare with each other on how good their life is. The way of thinking is different if were to compare with olden days. For example, couples in relationship demanding and comparing with friends around them. How their BFF's boyfriend treat their girlfriends with buying Chanel bag as present, it somehow affect you to compare and demanding for a Chanel bag from your boyfriend too. It somehow influences us to be more materialistic and comparing too much. Besides that, showing off too much on social media that you are rich by showing off how many branded bags or type of cars u drive might attract robbery and abduction cases especially if you have children. Abduction of children is rising nowadays. It is dangerous to put personal information and pictures on social media as we might not know what other people might do to you.

Another impact that can be seen obviously is lack of quality times with friends and family. As you can see young generation nowadays are too focus on their smartphone even when they are having dinner together with family. Sitting with each other face to face without talking to each other? There are families like that that they play with their phones most of the time. Quality times with family are meant to be more conversation and more stories to update your family members about your life and etc. Social media has somehow affected the relationship among family and friends.

What impact will social media have from the audience?

Feedbacks gained from the audience help social mediator to further their research and continue to innovate more useful technologies in the future that benefit us users.

Will the government/state change with this change in technology in Malaysia?

It will definitely change the technology in Malaysia compared to the days it was last time in terms of social, economic growth and politics. As a developed country, technology innovation is important in order to compete with other country and to reach our vision and mission of 2020.

references:
https://www.boundless.com/sociology/understanding-sociology/the-development-of-sociology/social-integration-and-durkheim/