EMPOWERMENT TECHNOLOGIES: ICT FOR PROFESSIONAL TRACKS

SOCIAL MEDIA
Social media are computer-
mediated tools that allow people,
companies and other organizations
to create, share, or exchange
information, career interests,
ideas, and pictures/videos in
virtual communities and networks.
 Social media refers to the means
of interactions among people in which
they create, share, and/or exchange
information and ideas in virtual
communities and networks. The Office
of Communications and Marketing
manages the main Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, YouTube and Vimeo
accounts.
 SOCIAL
NETWORKING SERVICE
A social networking service is
a platform to build social networks
or social relations among people who
share interests, activities, backgrounds or
real-life connections.
A social network service consists of a
representation of each user (often a
profile), his or her social links, and a variety
of additional services.
REASONS WHY STUDENTS LOVE
SOCIALIZING
Social networks provide them the
freedom to do whatever they
want to upload what they want
and talk to whom they want.
To make new friends and comment
on the lives of different people
 To create other online
identities that the real
world does not allow.
To create a digital image of
their actions through such
a spontaneous medium.
 DARKER SIDE OF SOCIALIZING
Identity crisis constant social
networking produces
As said by Professor S. Shyam
Sunder, a renowned researcher at
Penn State, The types of actions users
take and the kinds of information they
are adding to their profiles are a
reflection of their identities.
 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
more value, even despite some of them
being immoral or illegal.
 Students became entrapped by
the ploys of social networking.
Students neglect their studies
by spending time on social
networking websites rather than
studying or interacting with people
in person.
 Getting too involved in social media
can lead to an addiction that
inculcates bad habits.
The system generates 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, and this leads sometimes
to serious controversies.
- Teacher Lil