Social Media - Presentation

         My group was responsible to present information about social media, and what we found was very impressive. We wanted to share with the class how powerful social media is, and how negative it can be as well. We started to explain the history of social media, and it begins way earlier than what we can think of. The first social media was only accessible to military or business systems. The next ones were accessible to everyone, but it was rare for people to have the devices required to access the pages. Year by year, new social media platforms were created and more and more people were able to access and connect to the world. Of course there were very basic platforms in the beginning and they evolved into the new Facebook, Instagram, and so on. We talked about many other things, but for me, personally, the most interesting were the statistic relevant to how technology is spread around the world. I did not realize the number of people that have cellphones, or access to social media/internet, and this number is amazingly high. Keeping in mind all the poor countries that do not have money to eat, how is it possible for the technology world around the world to be this high? The most interesting was that there are more phone number registrations than population in the world.

            The negative effects are vey obvious because we all heard of them already, and we know how vicious they can be. We all have that friend that need to go to social media everyday, but this is not even the worst effect. In my opinion the self exposition of personal information is very risky, because once you post it, you can delete it, but people have already seen it, and you can’t take it out. This can influence future jobs, perceptions by other people, and even crimes of personal information stealing by anyone that can access you page.

            The last part of our presentation had the purpose of showing the social power it can have. We talked about a situation that happen, and food was needed in a country, so Turkish airplanes were sent with food to support the cause. But all of this was only possible because of social media. A group of famous actors, athletes and youtubers came together and shared this event in order to let the world know what is happening, and in that way convinced the Turkish airline to help. This proves that social media is huge and it can bring the world together for a purpose.