Hello!
So I could not find how to blog and I was thinking that the date of the prompt on Blackboard was from the week earlier. Although that is not an excuse, that is my reasoning for posting my blog right now.
I think there are major pros and some cons of social media and communication. Social media provides for a strong sense of non-verbal communication and that sends stronger messages to receiver more than verbal communication. Social media is also a pro because it lets us keep in touch with friends and see what people are up to. It provides a great sense of interaction between social groups because it has made it easier to communicate through the means of facebook to coordinate meeting times, ideas, and prepare for when to meet up. It also works as a way of branding yourself, a product, and just all around meeting and understanding others. Relating social media to this class, it can bring cultures together by chatting, and the use of pictures/comments/likes to understand another culture. Social media is a means of learning and branding.
I am a huge social media junkie, so to me, there are not many cons about it. One thing that might not be the best thing is the lack of privacy for social media users. Now-a-days, people are often "googled" before job interviews, and "creeped" on with their social media sites before they might even get offered an interview. In Nebraska, they are trying to pass a law where that is not right to judge someone based off of their social media. Although I think that it gives people a one-up when applying if they have good social media.
For those of you with poor social media sites, (for example, bad pictures, underage drinking, bad words, etc.) here is a website to help you clean up your act :)
http://mashable.com/2013/03/10/simplewash/
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