Nowadays,
most people use Social media for everything. Not only for communication but
also for working, studying, sharing and many more. Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share
or exchange information, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks.
In fact, some people think social media
can make them addicted. However, social media can give some advantages, such as
can make us closer with others. One-third (33%) of
online adults say that the social media has improved their connections with
friends “a lot,” and nearly one-quarter (23%) say that it has greatly improved
their connections with members of their family (Pew Internet and American Life
Project Networked Family Survey, 2008. Therefore, we should use social media to
get those advantages.
Social
media can make families closer each other because social media is used for
communication. According to the Pew Internet
& American Life Project reported about 47% of 2,252 respondents said that
such technologies are increasing the quality of communications within
households, and 53% said they are bolstering the quality of communications
among family members living apart (2008). In addition, the study found that in
70% of couples who use social media, people contact each other at least once a
day just to say hello or chat, compared to 54% of couples with social media or
not. On the others, 12% of parents contact their children daily using social
media.
In this era, if we do not use social
media, we find some difficulties to connect with others. It is because online communication also have the potential
to increase our awareness of the movements of our professional or social
contacts. Twitter, for instance, offers us an update of things people we know
happen to be doing at a particular point of time. This phenomenon has been referred
as social proprioception by Clive Thompson (2007), “after the physical quality
of proprioception that tells a creature where its extremities are by the
reception of stimuli produced within the organism. Social proprioception tells
us where the nodes of our community are and provides a sense of connectedness
to and awareness of others without direct communication. Internet is the third
place where people connect with friends, build a sense of togetherness.”
Some
people may say that media social is used as a place for bullying people.
However, it is absolutely nonsenses. In social media, we can share our hobby or
interest, such as photography. For example, we use Facebook as a media for
sharing our photos. The others can give comments to our photos and we can share
where the photo have been taken, how to take picture with hand phone or camera
correctly or anything else about photography. The data of Sum All (2013), about
15% Facebook users access Facebook to accommodate their hobbies.
In
brief, social media is becoming an integral part of life online as social
websites. Most traditional online media include social components, include
social component for users. It has function to connect sharing opinion or
creativity. For example, Facebook or Twitter. Those become the platform forms
or sites that focus on facilitating relation among people. Social media has
some advantages, such as communication with families and sharing hobbies. We
should use social media wisely to get those advantages.
References:
Pew Internet and American Life Project Networked Family Survey
Baruah,
T. D. 2012. Effectiveness of Social Media
as a tool of communication and its potential for technology enabled
connections: A micro-level study, (Online), (http://www.ijsrp.org) it is searched May 10, 2015
By: Agung Bimo Baskoro
Academic Toulmin Argumentative
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