The Quality of News : Increased or Decresed

Social media has increased the quality of news and information or decreased it?

Has social media increase or decrease the quality  of the news and information? I think in the terms of spreading awareness, accessibility and reach ability, definitely yes. But in the term of another parameter such important as quality of the news, I firmly thinks no. The detail story, realness and appropriate information and command are very important for the news quality which social media stories lacks heavily.

Absolutely, social media has changed our life in very positive manner and it has really change the way of communication and our style to get all information. Now you can find so many global news stories on the social media tools via internet, it is defiantly more convenient that traditional sources like news papers or television. But the quality that used to provided by the conventional sources is much better as it is not a broken sentences. On social media when people more likely to edit or try to show ones opinion, it is really hard to get real information just by reading someone's post. It is necessary to remember that not all information comes from a credible and a reliable source.  The news and information that people reads on tools have retrieved from many different sources which possibly can be unconfirmed. Sometimes very silly rumors spreading can cause a big confusion and tensional atmosphere in society. Even though one smart has to go through all news to be able to differentiate between facts, opinions, and speculations. In most of the saga common man access social media tools and very likely to add own comments and information that are simply based on opinions and individual experiences.

Even social media sometimes can cause a big problem for the people who more likely to trust whatever that is online. There was a term coined in 1984 called "Culture Jamming". According to this sometimes social media can be used as a platform of the protest. In June 2012, The Yes Men a culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters, made a website called ArcticReady.com a parody website which delivered the activity of Shell Oil in arctic circle. Which was complete fake and Shell Oil canceled any connection with it.

More often people use the tools like Wikipedia or You Tube to make a new or edit which is already exist story, and remake them by ones opinion which sometime can be true and sometimes not and this thing can confuse the reader. Today the world has become so fast that convenience of electronic devises has trapped us. In this time of world it  is very hard to tell a difference between the real and fake and news and information are not excepts. 

References

(2011). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming

(n.d.). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men

Social media DIET..!!!!

                                    

This blog is about my dieting experience and what more interesting  is, It was a social media diet. Yes you read it right. I have avoided social media for 48 straight hours as part of  my assignment. It includes the Facebook, Twitter and You tube but I didn't avoid my emails. I have been asked to avoid email also but as being online student and getting most of the information through mails I could not afford to did so. So this passed weekend on Friday and Saturday I tried to avoid my tools. Do I succeed, well you what the right answer is.

OK let's start from  the start of the day. Every morning I need my cell phone to check my Face book page while I am sitting on the seat of the toilet. I control this activity this is something what I am use to do for last 3 years and even I tend to be in half sleep at that time. So I need it and of course I did forget that I was on diet though I tried to avoid this second day. But there are so many time in a day that my finger automatically went on the keyboard hence I realized that I am addicted to this. It was very difficult to avoid Facebook for me because it like medicine to me. I use it to bring my anxiety level down, I use it to pass the time in metros, I use it while am thinking about my assignment which characteristics I never knew about before this diet.

Seriously I cheated on my diet a lot. As you all know it was the stormy weekend  I really know want to know about it, one  more thing here I come across every news and on goings on my Facebook strange right ! I use my Facebook even as a news paper. People and my subscribed news page's article tells me about the world. So I really want to know about the storm and situation even I really want to know about others. As I have some friends in London ON. and Calgary, I really want to know what are they doing and how is situation there. Even It was the weekend with the having latterly curfew outside because of storm so no more other activities as well . Even more I knew about some of my friend having some house parties and I desperately want to check out the pictures and the stuff they have done. SO for all sack I decided to check my page only once and I went there but logged out after 3 hours, which was ridiculous.

But if I see I can still point out some positive results like I knew about my social media addiction. Even I felt good  also because I got some real quality time to spend. Even I cooked my meal and I love that so all and all with or without social media is great for me.