Social Media
This is the age of Information and Technology, when information is treated as knowledge and power. As much information you have, as powerful you become. From the early Stone Age to the present, the media to spread the information has so many changes. Like water, it finds its own course automatically. The mode of exchanging information has improved from pigeon stage to IT stage. With the advance of technology, like smart phones, laptops, tablets and inbuilt apps for social media in it, this becomes easier to be connected with each other immediately. When Face book has started in 2004, it defines the importance of social media as a day to day need. Till now there are more than one billion of active users of Face book. As far as the influence is concerned, it is going to play a major role in the forthcoming general election (2014) in India. Apart from politics, while discussing current affairs, reviewing a new movie about to be released, going for a vacation to an unacquainted place, choosing a good restaurant, applying for a nice job, searching a life partner or choosing the best hospital for a critical illness, the job is done immediately through social media platform like twitter and face book. Though there are a number of social websites like Pinterest, Stumble upon, Xing, Redit, LinkedIn, g+ etc. Twitter is next to Face book in popularity. The micro blogging social website, Twitter, uses a limited characters (140) blog known as tweets with the use of hashtags (#) for keywords. Twitter can be connected with Face book account to post something with one go. And if you connect your website efficiently, tons of traffics can be directed from it without any extra effort and money.
Some success stories which create social influence for certain issues:
In the US, the last Presidential election campaign was done online through social media.
The “ Jasmine Revolution “ in Egypt , where the huge crowd was gathered at Tahrir Square to protest against Hosni Mubarak, was monitored through all social media to get support from all over the World. This led Mubarak to step down as Egypt’s President.
Malala Yousafzai, the 16 yr. school student was famous through writing articles about her native place, Swat, Pakistan, through social media websites. She was even nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
The other side of social network:
In the process of gaining popularity through social websites, you have to sacrifice your privacy.
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Some success stories which create social influence for certain issues:
In the US, the last Presidential election campaign was done online through social media.
The “ Jasmine Revolution “ in Egypt , where the huge crowd was gathered at Tahrir Square to protest against Hosni Mubarak, was monitored through all social media to get support from all over the World. This led Mubarak to step down as Egypt’s President.
Malala Yousafzai, the 16 yr. school student was famous through writing articles about her native place, Swat, Pakistan, through social media websites. She was even nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
The other side of social network:
In the process of gaining popularity through social websites, you have to sacrifice your privacy.
Read More : Click Here
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