"The Value of Being a Media and Information Literate Individual"
Nowadays, media is very crucial in our daily lives, especially for teenagers like myself who utilize social media. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media platforms are examples. It allows us to obtain knowledge from what we see on social media, interact with people such as our family, relatives, and friends, but it can also be a source of pleasure. It also helps in keeping one aware of what is happening in the world today, as well as keeping one up to speed on news in our society or in one's immediate surroundings. Especially this pandemic we use social media to be updated. An information source with the ability to translate it through media. To become media literate, a person needs to be able to detect when information is required, discover, assess, and use that information successfully as a guide. Media and Information Literacy is about assisting us in becoming competent and critical thinkers in our field of information.
Having media and information literacy can help develop our skills in everything we do. Media and information literacy allow us to demonstrate and create information judgments as users of MIL. Media and information literacy also gives us a chance or freedom to show ourselves, to have a peaceful community, no one is up and no one is low, just equal. Being media and information literate is not just memorizing information but learning what is in that information. We should be able to know how things are worked or evaluate and recognize the important information. As users of MIL, we should be responsible, we should spread or find accurate information to avoid very negative issues. As students, we should take it seriously because it will help us gain more knowledge and also it will help us in our future especially in work. If we are being literate we can be more advantageous to others because in life we need to learn something new and improve something new. Maybe without knowing that being literate about media information, there is a best that is hidden.