You may ask yourself, what os social media? Social media is news, information, ideas or opinions people share freely with friends or peers usually around your same age group; majority of the time they are posted on the internet through videos, pictures and websites like facebook, myspace, you-tube, etc. When we look back ten years ago to see if things like social media existed, the fact was that they didn't. They have only been around for the past five years or so. So what did people do to get the word out or spread news? Well they seemed to manage just fine, they had many options like calling on the phone, text messaging, emailing, writing letters, news through magazines, newspapers or local t.v. Well sadly to say, those options are still available today, but they are not used quite as much as new ways like social networking sites, websites and internet ads. The reality, is that things have evolved over time, we are now working smarter not harder. When I say this I mean that it is so much easier to type something up on a computer than it is to write a letter or making a long-winded phone call. Society today is geared toward convenience and instant gratification. People don't have the time to wait and do things, it is much easier to post things or ideas to a site like facebook and let people interact with you at their convenience.
Social media has also changed in education, technology has continued to grow in schools and you now have teachers using facebook to connect with the students in the classroom, teachers using blogs to post homework and kids creating email addresses so that they can be in contact with other students too. I think this is what education needs,kids nowadays need to have as much exposure to technology as possible, because in reality it is what our society is using in our day to day life and interactions with others.
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