Aldossary Naief - The importance of social media

Aldossary Naief Nassar M
1092700954
flaminski@gmail.com

Why social media is important....?

Social media is about connecting with people. it's about having

conversations online. it's dialogue. Not monologue, it's facebook,

twitter, myspace, blogs and more.

Social media has changed everything. From the way people are

recruited and hired to consumer expectations and customer support.

social media is important to us,to the world,it makes it fast,

easier, and FREE for everyone to create and share content.

Social Media is all the buzz these days, in general, social media

sites allow everyday people like me and anyone else to give a real

time feedback, comment impose, they let everyone share content,

and let our opinion really count. a decade ago, the term "google it"

was merely a thought, now there's over two hundred million searches

everyday, if people want to find any information, they just hit a

few buttons. Most people could do that at home, at work, and even

on the phone, in other words, consumers are as informed as they

wanted to be.

These are the common reasons why social network is important

1- Networking and relationship

2- Resources and information

3- Marketing and business

4- Lasts forever

In the end, Social media is important to us, we all see it as the

big thing in our life, many new users join the social world everyday.

imagine life without the social media, life would be slow, life would

be empty and boring,if the social media doesn't exist, my life would turn

into boredom, miserable life, and i'll be the guy with an empty brain.

Mostafa Mahoudi - what is social media

Name: Mostafa mahmoudi

Email: amooshelby@gmail.com

Student ID: 1081107434

watch this video first from youtube

I was searching through the internet today and came across an interesting post from Brian Clark, titled Since When Are Blogs Not Social Media?. Here is a quote from it:

I’ve noticed a strange trend lately.

For some reason, people seem to be equating social media with social networking.

At the same time, they seem to be treating blogging as something other than social media.

I found his post interesting because that trend is something I have been noticing myself. It looks like for many people social media is the collection of social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.

Well, it is much more than that.

Social media are the various forms of user generated content and the collection of websites and applications that enables people to interact and share information online.

Complicated? Well here is a list of things that are part of the social media:

• online forums (e.g., DigitalPoint)
• blogs (e.g., WordPress)
• social networking sites (e.g., Facebook)
• social bookmarking sites (e.g., Digg)
• video sharing sites (e.g., YouTube)
• photo sharing sites (e.g. Flickr)
• streaming sites (e.g., Ustream)
• user reviews (e.g., Amazon)
• crowdsourcing (e.g., Wikipedia)
• content aggregators (e.g., FriendFeed)

As you can see, social media is much wider than what some people think. It is also much older. We could say that the first Usenet (a form of distributed discussion system) developed in 1980 was already social media.


MOstafa mahmoudi
1081107434

Mohsen Ghafari - Social Media or Social Virus!

Arguement - Disagreement side!

 

Name: Mohsen Ghafari
student ID: 1091108885
Email: mohsen.ghafari.edu@gmail.com


01- Social media and the history of its usability

02- Government and new power of media

03- Third world and nothing more!

04- Media attack and virus spreader

Social media and the history of its usability

The media has always been under the knife of governmental power for their reason. We can’t say that we have had a very pure media without any purpose. Before the internet, the traditional media like newspaper, television and radio, were always under the control. It depended on power of government or big companies and so on. However, social media has its own benefits and came to be handy for making the progress of continuous lies. For a long time, we have both lies and deception together at home, work office and society. Anything around us is covered by the news which we like to hear about. And this is the purpose of power and control.

Government and new power of media

The most powerful tool for governments is controlling media. It doesn’t matter how smart are you, at last, you’ll get exposed by these kind of media like television, radio and papers. The new kind of media, internet, is a little modern and we just think that we have choice to use any information on the internet. This new tools, is the third arm for powerful men to have more control on people and tell more lies to them for living more. Nowadays, all of us like to listen, see and hear more lies without any exception. Internet opened a new window-shop for any kind of products like women, child abuse, murder, money eaters, and credit cards. If you have money so you have everything, if you don’t you must go somewhere and die! This is the power of internet, nothing more, and nothing less.

Third world and nothing more!

We have social media, so we are happy. We are connected to first world by social communication media type like Facebook, yahoo, Google, twitter. They’ve made these social networks for us to communicate. But what is all of this about? Are we really happy? Spending 80% of our time just using these kinds of media for just communication? Is this really meaning of having happy life and communication? The civilization means you must have Facebook, if you don’t, they look at you and laugh. Yes, this is the control and power. We won’t have any identity without using new social media and communication.

Media attack and virus spreader

Social media is like a soft attack. Don’t be mistaken! It’s neither cold war nor warm war. It’s soft attack. Like deadly poisons. You are addicted to social Medias like Facebook. Without Facebook, you have nothing, and you like to be surrounded by beautiful media like YouTube, music videos, MTV and you love to daydream all the time. So is it real life, is it reality?

Conclusion

Social media is a very big topic for all of us which we can by first asking question, get more answer from. I try not to giving a solution, but asking questions to myself, and try to communicate to my friends in another way and identify ourselves as a student who is learning for the future and going to take this control and power which is media.

Seyed Hadi Seyed Sadjadi - Social Media

Name: seyed hadi seyed sajadi
student ID: 1102702761 
Email: shssadjadi@gmail.com


The subject,Social Media is a serious subject which we can discover it from multiple side.

First: What are the advantages and disadvantages of social media?
Second: How the social media can be useful ?
Third: what are the concept of social media?
Fourth: why is the social media important to us?
Fifth: when it can be useful?
who will get the benefit and where?

in general The social media can be useful, and even useless. some of the people use the social media/network to connect with other people which is a good side of the coin but in contrast it will be hazardous for them when they spend most of their time in front of the computer and do nothing. there will be some illness for them such as eyes problem, laziness, overweight and ... .
Some of the people or better to say student will use the social media/network to do their assignment and research about that which is perfect but it won`t be a good idea to plagiarism because most of the student will copy the contain of a research,paste in their assignment as they work, that will be be an ashamed.

Another ways of using social media/network is Games and Video Games which in these ages, most of the companies and game developer started to to produce some crucial and aggressive games and some sexual and rudeness games which they just look at their packet to collect money.

Another type of social media is TV and generally visual art such as Theater,Film and ... which are trying to perform and spread their idea. the content of these type of medias will be in conclusion by the auditions.

Some of the advantages mentioned above but the most important of using social media is to say something. for example an infant will show his/her feeling by drawing in a piece of paper. a director show his/her idea by creating a movie and a writer with writing a novel and .... why the people are using social media is about their necessity of telling something or expressing their opinion and how are they using the social media is mentioned which a person will be a director, painter, game developer, theater producer or a writer.

The social media will be useful when the people spend their time to catch something even that kind of social media express in bad manner. we can find the weakness and analyze the problem of that social media to try to make it better with criticize in logical way. of course extravagant in using the social media or something else will be dangerous.

The concept of the social media won`t be square all the time because every person think differently and the result will be different. everyone analyze the problem by their own mind and detail something by their own knowledge, but the whole concept is a useful way of describing a feeling or expressing a problem with social media language. social media would be a language when is using in public because it is trying to connect two thing to each other.

The social media could be important to us because the human is sociable,naturally. they need to spend their leisure/time with other people and have fun and grasp new thing around the world. when a person is alone and is not surrounded by the other will start to share his/her data with someone else which is the first step of socialization and the time of using social media and it may to happen in every point of the world, from east to west and north to south even in extreme  point of the world. actually it is possible to connect the other planet in this giant galaxy which we are living in a smallest part of that to each other just by using and promoting the technology and then social media.

To get and understand the social media, we need to improve the technology first and using the social media next.

Seyed Hadi Seyed Sadjadi - Social Media Clip

Name: seyed hadi seyed sajadi
student ID: 1102702761 
Email: shssadjadi@gmail.com

Blog Assignment - TOPIC DISCUSSION 1

Blog Assignment - TOPIC DISCUSSION 1 :

TOPIC DISCUSSION 1 (DEADLINE: 10 July 2011, Sunday, Midnight)

Please view this short video on Social Media. (You can post this video on your blog for reference) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE

Discuss how this new "Social Media" phenomenon is affecting your life and the lives of the people around you. Real-life examples would be good.


Reminder:

Each student must post at least
1.) 1 reflective response on topic given (5%)
2.) 2 reflective response/comments to members’ postings within the group (2.5% X 2 = 5%)