Azha Clarice M.

Villanueva Media & Information Literacy

G12- IRON Activity 2

1. What is the emerging role of social media in the society?

Like this! Post that! Tweet this! Pin that! Social media is a huge part of everyone’s lives right now.

Based on my learning, approximately one third of the world use social media. When it comes to

technology, social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both

positively and negatively. Nowadays, social media have become an important aspect of our development

as human beings and everyday more people are spending much of their time on these type of media than

ever before. Social media was invented for the sole purpose of being able to express yourself online and

to be able to stay connected with those you care about. But we all know that one of the main role of

social media is to make an easy access to delivered information that help us be informed about pretty

much everything. Through social media we shared our feelings or experience in a certain situation. Some

of the example of social media are facebook, twitter, instagram, and youtube which is very popular in our

generation. We can’t deny that we used this kind of social media for communication and gathering

information in different fields. Also in social media there are possibilities to discuss about different

challenges that we encounter in our everyday lives. Therefore, more people share their opinions and

create online communities to advance their learning and improve performance. So that, social media

plays an important role in our lives.

2. How do you think social media is affecting our culture?

Today social media opens the door for opportunities to create both positive and negative influences

on the world. It has taken a big role in our social interaction. Through the power of social media,

organizations and individuals can reach each other without exerting too much work. When social media

comes to our mind, mostly think of their instagram accounts, or how many likes they got from a tweet

they posted. They caught up in this full of shocking likes, shares, and tweets, we didn’t notice how social

media has been shaping our society, how addictive it is, and how it has been influencing our thoughts,

actions, security, and confidence. While social media has brought us many positive traits, it has also

robbed us of some. It has robbed people’s ability to find trust and comfort in one another, replacing our

need for warm, supportive interaction and fellowship with a virtual, hollow connection. It has robbed most

youths from the ability to flourish in a physical, social interaction. It tends to bring low self-esteem, and

feeling of disconnection among peers and family. So that, if social media is not properly regulated, it will

become very consuming and unhealthy to our society.