Technology has changed the way we share and access information in different way. The biggest agent of this change has been the social media. Right from our personal lives to our professional lives, we have everything on the internet with the option to selectively or completely share them.
These are the changes social media has brought in our life –
1. Social mindset
Social mindset
Social media has brought a big change in our mindset. We see some heart touching story and we want to stand with them with their cause. We share our support to other’s who need it in the most difficult times. You see people debating and putting their point of views that are many a times convincing enough to sway your neutral mindset in any of the extremes.
2. Source of humor and taste
Source of humor
You might choose to differ, but the truth is that the latest comment you made on some YouTube video or a picture on Facebook page; draws its inspiration from someone else’s comment on YouTube or some meme on facebook. It is a truth that for many of the users of social networking sites the social media defines style and humor. Communicating with intentionally mis-spelt words to mock the grammar-particular people was one of the trends that were considered humorous. Memes are used by administrators of every facebook page to post something funny, and all these things become a part of your humor.
3. Value of communication
Value of communication
Back in the days when letters were the common mean of communications and call rates were high, people use to communicate at very long intervals and their concerns behind “how are you” used to be genuine. But today It’s all a matter of a click and you shall be sending a ‘hi’ with an unusual number of i’s to some person. But this ease of accessibility doesn’t increase the contents to communicate about. Social media has changed the value of communication.
4. Political campaigning
Political campaign
Before the times when social media took over the mankind, politicians used to rely exclusively on rallies, visits to the constituencies and door to door visits in a particular area in order to strengthen their political campaign and consequently their chances to come into power. Well, this method has definitely not been done away with but a considerable addition in these methods has taken place for sure. Now a specific wing of the campaigning department takes care of their leader’s promotion via the social media.
5. Our vocabulary
Our vocabulary
A decade and a half back if you would have asked someone that did he like your picture or if you would have said that you have shared an article, and then it would have had a completely different meaning than what it has in the present times of the social media. If you tell your 11 year old son that his uncle has posted something for him, then don’t be shocked to find him checking his facebook account. Because words like “post”, “share”, “comment”, “poke”, “tag” and “like” are the quintessential nouns of the social media, and they have a somewhat different meanings there than what they have in a real world (if there still some such pace is left). And you might find yourself scratching your head when you come across terms like hash tag, retweet, selfie and many more if you have newly made an account on facebook or twitter. But we are very sure that your kids do know the meaning very well.