Social
media is changing the way we communicate. By extension, it’s also changing the
way we get our information and how we learn. Rather than banning social media from
the classroom, many secondary schools are reaching out to students on Twitter,
Facebook and a host of other services — and it is surprisingly working out.
Social
media, which is looked as a mayhem that struck this world, is actually helping
the students to market their very own projects and assignments that they have
worked hard on, to showcase on social media. This is like free publicity done,
which could help them to come into limelight if and when they are spotted by
eminent people who are their target audience.
Also,
social websites provide a great space of individual surveys and other research
programs that are conducted by students themselves. Earlier, social media was
only being used as a means of extending one’s networking to far and wide
places, irrespective of whether you know or don’t know the other person, but
these days they are being used a means of propagating one’s own message to the
world.
We can
never forget the Jasmine Revolution which took off on the Facebook website and
led to the downfall of the Tunisian President, who was dictating over the
people of Tunisia and was draining the resources for his own benefit and how
people were emulating themselves because of frustration and no job and no food
to feed to their dependants.
The Jasmine
revolution is a mark in the books of history that how a social networking website,
led to the great Tunisian revolution and the downfall of Ben Ali. These days,
propagating one’s own industrious purpose online is quite a less expensive
affair and the word spreads fast, it’s something like wildfire that soon
spreads the entire jungle.
However like
everything, there is a negative and positive aspect to everything, it applies
to social websites as well. Like wildfire, it has the ability to spread false
news, thus resulting in some action that is absolutely not required in that
scenario. For example: two days ago there was a verdict that came out ruled by
the Madras High Court. The
judgement spoke of commitment after sexual act. It said if a bachelor has
completed 21 years of age and an unmarried woman 18 years, they have acquired
the freedom of choice guaranteed by the Constitution. "Consequently, if
any couple choose to consummate their sexual cravings, then that act becomes a
total commitment with adherence to all consequences that may follow, except on
certain exceptional considerations."
But the message that
spread across was that Madras High Court ordered that any couple who has had
sexual relationship is considered married. Thus we should always be careful in
what to post and where.
Minu
Aravind is a self motivated writer and blogger with an ability to develop
unique content , is associated with IGCSE
Schools in bangalore. She is a strong advocate of high-grade education, and
focuses to develop blogs and articles in the field of education, parenting,
child development and so on.
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