EMPOWERMENT TECHNOLOGIES: ICT FOR PROFESSIONAL TRACKS

SOCIAL MEDIA
Social mediaare computer-
mediated tools that allow people,
companiesandotherorganizations
to create, share, or exchange
information, career interests,
ideas, and pictures/videos in
virtualcommunitiesandnetworks.
 Social mediarefers to the means of
interactions among people in which
they create, share, and/or exchange
information and ideas in virtual
communitiesandnetworks.TheOffice
of Communications and Marketing
manages the main Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, YouTube and Vimeo
accounts.
 SOCIAL
NETWORKINGSERVICE
Asocial networkingservice is
aplatformto buildsocialnetworks
orsocial relations among people who
share interests, activities, backgrounds or
real-lifeconnections.
Asocialnetwork service consists of a
representation of each user (often a
profile), his or hersociallinks, and a
varietyofadditionalservices.
REASONSWHYSTUDENTSLOVE
SOCIALIZING
Social networks provide them the
freedom to do whatever they
want touploadwhattheywant
andtalktowhomtheywant.
To make new friendsandcomment
onthelivesofdifferentpeople
 To create other online
identities that the real
worlddoesnotallow.
To create a digital image of
their actions through such
aspontaneousmedium.
 DARKERSIDEOFSOCIALIZING
Identity crisis constantsocial
networkingproduces
As said by Professor S. Shyam
Sunder, a renowned researcher at
PennState,Thetypesofactionsusers
takeandthekindsofinformationthey
are adding to their profiles are a
reflectionoftheiridentities.
 Students have become prone to
frequent fluctuations in mood and
self-control.
If one of a students friends posted
about his or her present relationship
with someone, then other friends are
pressed to do the same thing. Actions
that attract more public attention hold
morevalue,evendespitesomeofthem
beingimmoralorillegal.
 Students became entrapped by
the ploys of social networking.
Studentsneglecttheirstudiesby
spending time on social
networking websites rather than
studyingorinteractingwithpeople
inperson.
 Getting too involved in social media
can lead to an addiction that
inculcates bad habits.
Thesystemgenerates a competition
to make as many new friends as
possible and the so-called social
quotient of a person is decided by
how many friends they have and not
on how good-natured and congenial
the person really is.
 Often, students who are not
old enough to accurately
analyze the world like or
comment on social or political
issues,andthisleadssometimes
toseriouscontroversies.
- Teacher Lil