Sunday, July 10, 2011

Media Culture Discussion- Social Media

In the past, people use phone, pager and hand writing to contact with the other, and it brought a lot of inconvenient to each other.

20-30 years ago, the world start appear usage of computer, and with the technical like as they use in the telecommunication.

And until today, facebook, twitter, tumblr, even now the latest Google+ is getting hot in just a few day after it start launching the beta.

Overall, the improvement of social media nowadays shorten distance for everyone in the world.

You can meet up with your friend with just a webcam and finger on the keyboard. And sent instant message to them, instead of phone, phone cost you credit but usually, internet won't, so this is why nowadays IM (instant messenger) also very popular.

Plus, we have friendster from few year ago, and now most popular is facebook, it just created by a US boy for social need, but it aimed what people need, turned out that facebook become part of our daily life, such as discussion, contact each other, share content like photo, music and info.

Mainly, the improvement of social media shorten the distance of all the people in the world, we can talk with each other with just simple drop email, or instant messege, even with content sharing to update your status always. It also showed the concept of "earth village"

It keep grow rapidly nowadays and it shorten more and improve much on the function and convenient in the future.

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