HOW SOCIAL MEDIA HAS HELPED FAMILIES, SOCIAL
WORKERS, AND THE GOVERNMENT IN
"Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community"
As we all know, Social Media are interactive digitally mediated technologies that facilitate the creation or sharing, exchange of information, ideas, career interests, and other forms expression via virtual communities and networks. Social media gives us a quick electronic communication of content. Content includes personal information, documents, videos, and photos.
We all know that social media plays a very important role in today's life, but how social media has helped families, social workers and the government in discerning information during calamities?
Through social media it helps many families to easily communicate their relatives, from other places especially when they have relatives, sisters, brothers, parents outside the country. By the use of social media we can inform our family on what to do in discerning information during calamities. For example we have we have two social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter which are popular for posting news and updates about disaster. These two social media platforms send warnings and updates to impart our family members and relatives so they can be reminded and prepared of the precautionary measures during a calamity. Social media helps many families to be aware and give announcement if there is upcoming disaster that will happen in our country. Lastly, through social media it allows people to keep in touch with our family and other relatives and access important information. Through post and tweets people can be informed by legit sources, locate our families, connect with them through videocalls and chat.
Through social media it helps social workers to educate them about the informations during calamities. It gives not only information but awareness as well. Social media also enabled social workers across the world to connect, share knowledge and information. The use of social media enables social workers to collaborate, build relationship, and share information and resources about discerning information during calamities. Lastly through social media and social platforms, social workers leveraging its use in order to respond emergencies especially during calamities. Social media helps the social workers to alert and awake to disseminate information that can save them from calamities.
Through social media it helps government and the entire community in raising public awareness on different types of calamities and their potential impact in the society. Social media is the partner of government to ineffable an understanding of the dangers of calamities and impacts of it so that the public can be equipped with the proper information and can prepare accordingly. Social media helps also the government to disseminate the information that can save the people from calamities. During this time, social media had a great contribution in an instant and effective way to the government. Lastly through social media, the government are able to ask help from the government of otheir countries to send assistance to the affected areas. They can also spread information and updates about calamities.
How does the use of social media different from the past where information is only provided by the media (TV, radio, and print)?
Discerning information during calamities through the social media in the present is much more easy compared to the past media where information is only provided by the media (TV, radio and print). By social media, people can get real updates during calamities anywhere and anytime while in traditional media you can only get access to news if we are at home or if we have television and radio. Traditional media only offers a one way conversation and wherefore there is no chance to communicate his or her thoughts about a news. On the opposite, social media provides a two way conversation, it allows people to and share information with others. Through social media, one can interact with another while obtaining and giving information. Although in social media is that the news coming from this are not always dependable compared to traditional media in which the content are organized by professionals or experienced people in the field. It would still then come down that both the social media and the traditional media should be used by people in discerning information wisely to be able to provide the correct and honest information to all.
Nowadays, Social Media plays a very important role in today's life, social media enable people discover and learn new information, share ideas, interact with new people and organizations. It has changed the way people live their life today, it has made communication much easier!
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