Social Medias Impact

(1) How is technology such as the Internet, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or cell phones impacting the local and global community? Consider the economic or political consequences.

There many ways these social media sites are impacting the local and global community. One prime example of this is voters throughout the community. Voters are increasingly turning to these such sites to learn more about politics. Even though what people are posting may not necessarily be correct information, the principle idea is that people can post whatever they want. It was Obama's 2008 strategy that changed online campaigning. He used social media for such diverse tasks as connecting grass-roots supporters in vital early states and revealing his vice presidential pick by text message. Also, in the 2008 presidential election, meet ups organized online by Barack Obama supporters raised huge amounts of cash.

 

(2) In Egypt, how are blogs or social media applications being used to change society?

The Revolution in Cairo illustrates this question precisely. In Cairo, Egypt there was a revolution that started off the basis of Facebook. Police brutality was a growing issue in Egypt, and the people were getting sick of it. There were a group of Egyptians that formed a group and posted their concerns and ideas all over Facebook. This group of people made an event on Facebook, April 6th to start a strike against police brutality. The more the police attacked the members of this group during these strikes, just gave them more drive to fight against the government. As you can see, social media played a huge role in this revolution. A group of people started posting their ideas while others started following these ideas. This can be done at any time if others are interested in what someone has to say.

Social Media Changing They Way We Live

How is social media changing the way we live?

Social Media is changing our daily lives a significant amount. Social media is changing where we get our news, how we start and do business, how we meet and stay in touch with people, what we reveal, and what we can influence. In summary, social media is providing more means of communicating with people. It is taking the power of the few and giving it to the many; more people can be creators which give us the ability to change what happens in the world. 

How is social networking changing the way we communicate?

The answer to this questions correlates to the answer to the previous question. Social networking is providing more means of communication with people around the world. It is taking the power of the few and giving it to the many. One example of this is Google Documents. This program on Google allows multiple people to work on the same document from anywhere across the world. This is a huge benefit for businesses for presentations. Another example is Skype. Skype allows people from all over the world to video chat from anywhere they have an internet connection on their computer. 

Is Google making us stupid? Yes or No - Why?

I wouldn't necessarily say Google is making us stupid but making everything easier. Now in this day and age we can surf the web and within minutes we can find all the information we were looking for. As for the impact on reading, surfing the web is sweeping us away from paper back. Books, articles, newspapers, etc. all of this can be found online, so instead of people going out of their way to go to the library, they just log onto the computer and they have what they were looking for with just a couple clicks of their mouse.