How Social Media Has Caused a Radical Change on Communication

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Social Media is a phenomenon that has changed the world, a simple idea that became a trend, and then turned out to be the most important way to communicate on the individual, corporate and governmental level. It is one of the fastest and easiest ways for people to share and receive information. Social Media dramatically transformed the approach to how people are able to communicate amongst one another. Social Media websites are widespread, it is astonishing to know that recent statistics show that: “73% of online adults use social networking site” (Hampton, Goulet, Rainie & Purcell, 2011, introduction paragraph). Through Social Media websites, which are numerous today such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Keek, and My Space, individuals are now able to share each single detail of their lives by a click of a mouse. The social media has caused a radical positive change in the communication field, because it eliminated all borders and barriers of communication and eventually turned the word to a global village, where individuals are able to interact and respond to each other in an easy, intelligible, and convenient way.

To begin with, one of the most important advantages of social media is the increased interactions with family and friends living away from each other. Now contacting your father, sister or friend living away from you is no longer a complicated process. You do not need to wait for the postal worker to collect your letter from the mailbox and get it shipped to another continent, or exhaust your pocket with high cost telephone bills anymore. Alternatively, you can now make an audio/video call using Skype, post a picture through Facebook to share a special moment with your family and friends, and start a conversation w...

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...ng people creating several pages on various Social Media websites and an event on Facebook inviting people to participate in the street demonstrations and ended with the fall of the two repressive regimes.

To sum up, Social Media became an important part in our lives. It made us more exposed to the world and increased our self-confidence. People can now express their persuasions with total freedom through the social networks. It is an amazing technology that made the human interaction easy, handy and fast. I think that social media is of a great benefit to the humanity if people used in the right way.

Works Cited

Hampton K., Goulet L., Rainie L., & Purcell K., (2011),"Social Networking Sites and Our Lives", Retrieved on March1, 2014 from: www.pewinternet.org
Marino k., (2012), "Social Media: The New News Source”, Retrieved on March1, 2014 from: www.schools.com

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