#NO.18 { Should We Be On The Social Media Network? }

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Hey blog readers!
So, its just another late night post ! Yes, it does seem like I don't sleep at night huh? I am an owl :P
Anyways , so.. like I said on the post before this, I did lots of work on thinking how to make my blog more alive and definitely had loads of ideas (maybe not LOADS but I did have a few in mind) and this is one of it! Before hand, I would like to say that this blogpost is not meant to hurt anyones feeling or offence anyone by any means. If I did, I would like to first apologise.
So, why is it I choose this topic. Such a weird topic to be on the blog right? Well, I know now in this modern age, Internet is something we probably couldn't live without. For me and also most of the people on earth. Back then when it was sort off like a stone age, people barely use the internet. But now, almost every house hold has them and no matter how much you can't afford it, there is all the free wifi every where right now. And then there is the birth of the social media networks like the Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Youtube and so on... Well, its not like we did not have such stuff before this. It just wasn't as viral as now. We used to have MySpace and Friendster , also we had Windows Live Messenger and the Formspring. But back then, not everyone had those social media like right now. So, is it really good to have an account on all  these social media right now? For today, I try my best not to be a huge hypocrite in discussing this topic because I definitely do have accounts on almost all the social media network. But, do you guys know, there are still lots of people wondering if they should be making a Facebook account or  a Twitter account or maybe an Instagram account? Well, if you guys didn't know there's such people, let me tell you, I personally know some people who do not have a single social media account. A great big example would be my mum. HAHA. And I don't know if she'll be reading this post but I love you :P.  Anyways, lets go straight to the point and go through the pros and cons in all the pretty famous social media network we have these days and lets make a conclusion out of it shall we?

CANDIDATE NO.1 : MR. FACEBOOK
The first I am going to bring out is this Facebook . It was probably the most viral social media back in the year 2007 if I am not mistaken and until now it is still used by many users. Is it really a must to have a Facebook account? Well, I am very sure that almost 90% of the people on earth knows the existence of Facebook and many is using them despite being too young or old. Well, to me there are a few good thing in having a Facebook account and also the downside of it.

Pros
Facebook is probably the largest social media network where you can stay contact with anyone that is not near you or also near you like for example your family members. To me, I find it really useful sometimes , yeah SOMETIMES take note of that. By that sometimes I mean by talking or knowing things about your old friends or maybe people who you know that you can't keep up with everyday like maybe one of your bestfriends who has gone to study aboard. Besides that, having a group page was also very useful, since you will get latest news about anything to do with the community you join or even shopping websites .  This was really useful to me back in my school years where I get lots of news on homework or what books to bring even exam tips on the page.

Cons
This is the downside to having a Facebook account. As you guys know, we can freely add anyone and choose to accept anyone or ignore a friend request but do many of you really filter your friend request? Like recently, I went to clear up and refresh my facebook account and check my friend lists one by one and also albums, I was so shock to find that I had a few weirdo's on my friend lists. I immediately unfriend them. I thought so long on who they were cause some of them had really pedophile pictures I suppose? And since I am a girl and a teenager , befriending weird old mans on facebook that I don't know is just scary. We have to always know that being in the social media, we are expose to the world as much as possible and we are not even 100% sure that people we befriend on the social media are trustable or even real human. I mean of course they are human, they can't be ghost! But what I am saying/writing is, are they really that old friend you used to know? Being in the social media is also being behind a computer screen. Don't know if you understand me, but we don't know if the owners of any account are really under them or not and if we did know, humans are still humans, we can't read minds. So, we never know any new friend we make, what are their real intentions. As you all may know, there are really many cases before this on the harm of love on facebook and even money scams and so on... What I see nowadays, there are really so many people who neglect on this filtering friends section and the importance of it. I am not here to control your life in who you want to choose to be your friends on facebook but what I am trying to say is , If you are trying to make a penpal for an example. Do make sure that whatever you are going to post as a status or an album or pictures are safe for your own privacy .  With so many features on Facebook for security it is not something hard to do. Also, do take note that whatever you post should be safe for the world, by that I mean, there really shouldn't be anything that could hurt a person's feelings by any means. Whether its racism or looks or anything. I know people who used to make hatred page for certain someone just because they dislike them. Do you know how terrible such thing can do to someone? It could even take away a person's life and I never know what people feel by doing that. Do they feel accomplishment or satisfactory that someone they hate are being hated too? Or those rude comments on a Facebook wall or anything. In the end, people get hurt and there is just no joy in it. And by this is what I mean misusing the social media. To hurt someone , to put a revenge or what so ever. There are people who just don't care on what they put on the social media like their Handphone Number and Address. Then they wonder why they get in trouble  later. Do I really need to further explain on this? Really? Cause there's really nothing much to explain on letting the whole world know how to contact you or prank call you or maybe where to kidnap you..

The next thing and one of my most hated thing on facebook is probably the language that people use. As if abbreviations for words like btw,OTL,OMG all these are not enough, there are just some malaysians who likes to type in malay like this --> awk ngat sko oah tuk... I don't even know what language is that and  do people really understand what are you writing? I don't know. It could be some code language among people but seriously.. must we disgrace our own Bahasa Melayu to that stage? I am not saying that we cannot use short forms for our BM languange but simple one and understandable ones would do. For example, sayang to syg or tengah to tgh... something like that. Why do we need to type aqwehksuytcklzuelwio like that?!

CANDIDATE NO.2 : MS. TWITTER
Twitter is a social media most used by teenagers these days. There's really nothing to say about the twitter. I think its the most versatile one. You can talk to your friends all day and get updates on them. Yeah, even if they are peeing. Not because there is a tracking system in this social media but more like manual updates, live tweets from the owner of the account. On the downside of it is probably too much tweeting cause of addiction and lack of time to concentrate on studies happen. I was there before, I know how hard it was to stop using twitter to study for my SPM until I get used to it. It was sort off like drugs ! Well, you can just write about anything on it and throw your emotions on it. But some people take it too seriously with the vulgar words sometimes and some, they take other people's tweets to seriously and start making arguments on it. Well, that's the only downside about it. There's not really a need to put your handphone number down or anything on twitter so there really isn't much bad things about it. Except for one thing, there are people who tweet really irrelevant stuff.

CANDIDATE NO.3 YOUTUBE MAN

To talk about YouTube, its not such a bad thing to have on the internet. I mean if you don't have a TV and only the Internet, Youtube can be a TV for you! The only bad thing about it is that there are some people who do not utilise it well. For example, making videos that are really not useful not even for laugh and making themselves a laughing stock. There was once a case on the sore eyes girl video and people make parodies out of it and I do not want to mock anyone on this blogpost but well, you just have to be careful on what type of videos you want to upload. Make it something entertaining to watch for someone or useful like tutorials or since vlogs are famous you can do that too but please just one thing.. Be careful on what you upload. That's all I can say. There was also a video I came across , where Noah Yap did a parody of skyping with some kids that must have posted videos to their 'haters' , and all I see is that the kids were saying F*** You like I don't know how many times and they are kids, KIDS! I don't get the point on posting such a video, you get what I mean?

CANDIDATE NO.4 & NO.5 BLOG WOMEN AND TUMBLR GIRL

This 2 social media networks are about the same , so I just grouped them into one. Lets start with blog. Should you have a blog or not? Well, for me, what I really think is , having a blog is pretty good as long as you post relevant stuff. It could also be your everyday diary if you want to. There are people who post and hides it for themselves and there are people who would post about their personal life a little bit like mine and still let others see it. Some writes stories like its a novel in their blogs. I think having a blog is pretty neat and you can even improve your writing skills as a bonus. But then.... there are still some people who would choose to write topics a little bit sensitive but this all depends on the writer themselves. I have no say in this.

As for tumblr, I think its what most teenage girls and especially photographers love. Tumblr blogs speaks your mind with their quotes and beautiful pictures. I don't think there is anything bad on having a tumblr account. It could be a little bit confusing for the newbies but trust me you will definitely get used to it. I was once there so I know the whole confusion on what do you do in tumblr and so I might even start on a new blogpost after this on " TUMBLR FOR NOOBIES ". Because I have really a lot of people asking me about it.

CONCLUSION
And here comes to the conclusion of whether should you or we be on the social media network or not! My conclusion sums up to that, "the social media network brings no harm to any living thing but the thing that is harmful about it is how we, humans utilise it." If you do not have any of the above social media network and you plan to get one, what I can say is just be careful on everything you do on it. We have a mind of our own and we know how to think what is right and what is wrong. So, if you think posting a status or writing your real birthdate for the world to see is safe for you and everyone around you then go ahead. Learn the security measures like choosing who gets to see your album on the internet. If you think you would like to make a new friend then go ahead. All I can say is just be careful, be careful and be careful. Be wise and make sure you know what you are doing. Think first then do. Many people have retreat from social media because of mistakes they had done before by not thinking hard first and I am sure you won't want to be attacked or be a laughing stock to the world.

Before I end this post, again, I would like to apologise if I did hurt some of your feelings by my words or if you think I went a little overboard, please do not feel offended as I was just speaking out my mind. I am truly sorry.

Hope that this post is somewhat useful, entertaining and maybe have teach you something :)


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