AMY ANGELICA C.

DATA PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION

BSN 1-A

“HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CAN MAKE HISTORY”

Social Media has been evolving, changing our lives, making it easier for us to transmit

information and connect with other people. The evolution of social media has brought changes

not just by means of delivering information but how the people interact with one another.

Looking back on how the people communicate in the last 500 years, it shocked me on how much

the social media has improved. The way of transmitting information and communicating

nowadays is a lot much better than it was last 500 years, and me, myself would choose the way

we communicate today because it was way much easier.

Shirky’s Ted talk explains how social media affects our lives every single day. From

how we start our day, seeing weather updates, news, playing music while drinking a cup of

coffee, video chatting and texting with friends, scrolling, reacting and posting on instagram,

twitter, and facebook until the moment that we fell asleep. Social media plays a big role in our

everyday life. We’re too hooked on social media that we thought we can’t live without it. And as

it evolves, we are getting more and more attached on social media. Shirky also tells stories about

the media transformation. He tells about the four periods where media has changed enough to be

considered revolutionary: the printing press, the phone and telegraph.

In the past, communication is done through letters. You’ll be waiting for a week before you can

the letter. But right now sending a message can be only done in a second. Starting a conversation

with your family and friends that have been working in other places can be done by just clicking

the call button in our phones. If there was only one receiver or one sender of the information in

the past, now the internet provides an opportunity in which there are multiple receivers and

senders of information. If you wanted to inform everyone about an upcoming event you don’t

have to see them just to inform them about it, you can just create a group chat and send a

message inviting without exerting so much effort just to deliver the information. Social media

plays an important role in our current situation. Covid-19 has been spreading and the only way

that we can prevent is by providing safety precautions about it by the use of social media. Social

media have been the crucial factor in implementing the Covid-19 prevention. With the help of

internet we can stay connected. In the past, not everyone has the power to provide information,

but now each of us has the capability to spread information. The only thing that we have to do

right now is to make the best use of.