Social Media on the run, towards developing the future.

     Inevitably, social media has dominated our current era. With the use of social media and social networks, we became a lot more sociable, cooperative, etc. These social ways of communication have made our lives easier and has played a huge part in our lives, economy, business statuses, and a lot more. A lot of our source of living are based upon the social media through the use of social networks. An example of this are online business stores. Also, some advertising are also done on social networks. Indeed, social networks are really helpful not just in businesses, but also in our school works.

     Social media and social networks will eventually evolve in the following years. Due to the advancement of our technology, it will really happen in out world. Since the start of trend of technology, everything has evolved to the next level. I perceive that social networks would have a huge number of subscribers. Also, I believe that strong competition would be on the run. but, as for now, Facebook is still dominant. They would make a lot of different applications to compete against each other. These applications would be the basis of their firm competition and would boost up their competitiveness so that they can offer the best set of new technologies they can make. Another thing is that maybe every social network would have their own live chat so that it is more convenient for the user to depend upon only one network. On the other hand, for social media, it really will evolve in the coming years. Right now, different companies have already developed awesome gadgets that will make your mouths drop in awe. I believe, in the coming years, it would continue to evolve in a more tech-y and advanced way. Since then, we have used social media as a means of communication. In this way, the use of this will evolve into a more unique way wherein we may use these in a more effective way.

     In this era, we really do rely on social media as a means to communication. Through the use of technology, we may upgrade our way of living because of our dependence on such things. But, we must still depend on the traditional ways because through this, we can still appreciate our culture. But all in all, we still live in a world full of new advances wherein we live in such things.

Social - Media. A reflection.

     For my 1 academic year stay in De La Salle University, it is clearly seen that I have learned a lot of different, new things that I can apply to my life. Like what we learn from school, we must also apply these things to make our learning fruitful. It is truly nice to see that we can achieve something based on the things that we have learned from such. All the activities that we have done in SOC-MED class has really been unforgettable and in here, I'll start to reflect upon myself on what things made my 3rd term in De La Salle University fun and exciting.

     As my stay in De La Salle still continues, I have learned a lot of things that I didn't expect to come on my way. As for SOC-MED class, it introduced me to new innovations that are in trend right now. This class has taught me different kinds of technology that will be improved in the coming years, or even, for the future. Technologies that will be essential in our lives for the coming years ahead. This, is what we have accomplished.

     We have done different experiments and activities. The first one was the introduction to Twitter and on tweeting everyday with the hash tag #socmed. From the first day, up and until now, Twitter has been with us through thick and thin. In here, we say all the things that we feel and all the burden that we can throw on Twitter. We are free to say what we like to say to the world. It is, indeed, helpful for our lives and even, to our social lives. The next one was about a blog of  a memorable childhood experience. With this activity, we have reminisced past photos of our childhood and through that, we have appreciated on what being a child is. We have missed on being little cute babies and the crazy antics we have done in our childhood days. The blog we posted was such a nice activity wherein we have gotten to know our group's childhood memories which will make us all more closer.  The third activity was about the VOST2011 videos. I have seen a lot of submissions and it was nice to see that we, Lasallians, can contribute to such magnificent, creative ideas we can share to the world. These videos relate to us on how we use social networks in our lives and what college life has to offer for us. I have to say, it was fun shooting for our video submission because we have seen the deeper meaning on why social media is essential for us. During our reporting, all I can is that I am in awe of all the creativity and the flow of ideas Lasallians have gave on making their video submissions. Indeed, we have our own creativity and uniqueness that we can showcase to the world. The fourth activity was on reputations. It was a paper activity wherein we answered questions that has something to do with reputations on social media.

     That was half of the activities that we have done on SOC-MED class. The fifth one was about The YouTube Traffic Experiment. This, I think, was the best experiment so far because we have done a lot of things to accomplish this. To record the newly uploaded videos, to segregate the status, and other such things so that we can make our evaluation on the most number of tags used, the commonly used language and etc. This activity helped us to manage the use of a tag cloud. The next activity was about the conflict/difficulty in social networks. In this activity, we have interviewed 2 resource persons who we think has a different kind of job and way of living. This experiment helped us to understand better on how social networks helped in their lives and how it made their live a lot easier. The last activity to be done was about the 6 degrees of separation. In this activity, we will make a video to interpret it. We still haven't finished it but we assure you that we will do it. :)

    All in all, I can say that I am thankful for having SOC-MED in my last year as a frosh. Also, I won't regret on choosing IM track over the IT track. Indeed, SOC-MED has taught me a lot of things that I am thankful of because it helped me on making my life easier and more technological. In this class, I thank Ms. Mavic for patiently sharing all of her knowledge about the technology industry now. Also, I thank all of my group mates who were with me in all the process and accomplishments. :)