How and for what purposes do you use social media? Which platforms do you use more often? Do you like certain platforms more than others?
Lawrence Sung
Nov 11
I came across this chart while searching up media neutrality: It got me thinking--is there even such a thing as unbiased media? To that, I say no. Every human being grows up in a different set of circumstances and is exposed to unique stimuli that contribute to the development of a person's personality and beliefs. Over time, those solidify as one constantly uses them as a framework through which one interprets the environment around them. Thus, no matter how hard people try to be neutral when disseminating information, there will always be a slight bias towards one region of the political plane (I prefer not to use the spectrum notion since it generalizes too many political traits) because of the built-up habit of using one's belief system and personality to analyze the world.
Is this bad? Absolutely not. In fact, I think that this is great for democracy! With the notion of media neutrality gone, news agencies are free to express their own opinions about the world around them. Furthermore, the power of interpreting the media no longer is in the hands of the media themselves; rather, the democratization of media will allow the people the chance to interpret both sides of the news, for once, and will grow the public's ability to think for themselves. Thus the common people will be liberated from the vices of a monotonous press.
I use social media almost daily and my preferable social media platforms are Facebook and Twitter.
Why do you like Facebook and Twitter most? Is this similar in your community?
No in my community Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat is most famous. But I personally prefer using Facebook to communicate with friends around the world and Twitter if I want to know what is happening in the world because on Twitter I follows some famous world leaders and organization so i keep checking my twitter almost daily.
It really is interesting how world leaders have taken to Twitter as a platform!
I use social media for getting information. So I usually use Facebook and Twitter. I do love reading the news and debating with friends on some hot issues.