MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY

GUIDED QUESTIONS:
1. What is the message in this illustration?
The given picture shows us how these different ways on communicating decreases or
increases the level of intimacy to the one we are talking to. As time pass by our
community continue to grow and develop many communicating apps or features such
as messenger, Instagram, telegram and even dating apps where we can talk to
strangers. This pandemic we’ve all been using these communicating apps to talk to our
friends, family, schoolmates and even strangers and basing on my experience talking or
chatting through phones kind of feel empty. You really don’t know if someone was being
sincere when they chatting with you. You can’t express your feelings since you don’t
even see your faces, some are even faking their emotions unlike when you are talking in
person. Just like the picture showed above talking in person have the greatest level of
intimacy since you can clearly see how the person you’re talking to reacts. You can
express your emotions without filtering it. The more we don’t see each other, the more
the intimacy in communicating decreases, just like the least level of intimacy showed in
the illustration which is posting on twitter. You don’t really know if the person was
talking/ referring to you since the post was shared publicly. You can only communicate
through status and can only use emojis to express emotions but we really can’t tell if its
true or were just being scammed. In essence, the illustration just want to tell us that in
terms of communicating the more barrier we had the more difficult to communicate
with someone. Nowadays we should be responsible and be careful in using these apps.
We should be aware of scams, fake news and etc.
2. Do you agree with the illustration regarding communication? Why or why not?
Yes, I agree how the illustration shown us these levels regarding communication. It was
accurately illustrated and listed. In modern communication it was correct to tell that
twitter has the least level of intimacy. Through twitter anyone can post a tweet even
fake accounts. The tweet will mostly reach numerous people around the world and you
can’t surely tell whose talking who since it was post publicly. Second least intimate is
facebook status for the reason that there is a wide audience of your post and most of
the time interaction is one way the people will just look at the post and likely will not
respond. The following four ways that have least intimacy are facebook messenger,
email, text message and chatting apps these doesnt need face to face or either voice
interaction and mostly formal. The two ways that numbered 8 and 9 are phones and
video chat it were more intimate than the mentioned ways before for it allows us to
communicate seeing others faces and voices. and lastly, we cannot really disagree with
talking in person is the most intimate ways in terms of communication since it allows
you to listen to the one youre talking to and you can express your feeling sclearly and
truthfully. it's not just the mutual experience a person will get from talking with another
person and the obvious emotion one could express, but also, there are always messages
 that admittedly, we cannot express or say in plain text messages. Though these social
media applications maybe a temporary connection between people, these still function
as effectively; it's just that, these are less intimate.

TASK 1
GUIDED QUESTIONS 1.1
1. How do you use Facebook as a tool or medium for communication?
As a user of facebook for years now, I can say that it’s really a useful tool in terms of
communication.