Social Media

It is very important to know the exact meaning of these two words to understand what social media is. First we have that social is the relation between people and how they behave in their environment, and on the other hand we know media as the storage and transmission tools used to store and deliver information. So what is the first idea that comes to your mind when you put these two words together? Before I started to research, I thought that social media was related to mass communication and advertising, in fact it is true but the real meaning is this one: social media is information content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. A short meaning should be the way that people create and share information all around the world.

It also says that social media is the union between sociology, a branch of social science that analyzes the human social structure, and technology, that is all the material objects of use to humanity, such as machines, hardware or utensils. It says that because sociology is referring to human creativity, how they create all this information and in which way they can express it (blogs, internet forums, micro-blogging, social networking, discussion groups, social network aggregation, and events), and technology because it is the tool that people use to share the information they create. I think that this fusion is quite interesting because it teaches us how the technology is in constant evolution, and how the people are more and more connected thanks to it.

Well, enough about important meanings and significant terms, I’m now going to talk about the importance of social media. It is very important because it transforms the readers into publishers, now they have the chance to put across them and say whatever they want, they can talk about a lot of good topics that could be controversial, conservative, political, formal, or funny. Another good reason that makes this kind of media so popular is that it allows people to meet and connect in the internet so they can form personal relationships and also develop businesses. I think that social media is very useful and fun because it opens your mind to new cultures and ideas that you never knew before, and most important, it invites you to share your own information content with the world, using mainly the internet.

Social media is not only the present, but also the future. I have no doubt that it is going to continue growing and developing in ways that we don’t expect or know. People like it so much because in this modern world, appearances, traditions and prejudices are somewhat left behind. The majority of people now want to show who they really are, and so they have this new way of expressing themselves and getting to know so much more people around the world. Social media is a creation that reflects our need to communicate in different ways and that need, as everything does, is going to continue growing with time. I think that we have to take advantage of this term and start becoming involved in sharing useful information with people; in that way, we could help each other and maybe become a better world.