Why is social media important? Saru, Tamaki

Why is Social Media important?

                                                                   　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Saru & Tamaki

The amount of time we spend on social media is still increasing. This means, we are focusing more of our attention on social media. Nowadays, 81% of online Kiwis use YouTube, 79% use Facebook and 46% use Instagram. We asked why social media is so popular because we cannot find people who don’t use it. We think there are five reasons.

1.     It would be hard for some people who don’t use social media.

 To talk to someone face-to-face is very difficult for some people. My sister is so shy that she is not good at talking to someone at all. She has only a few friends in reality. But, she has so many friends she connects with online, using social media. According to her, all of her friends in social media have the same worry. They are also not good at talking to someone. I was surprised that she looks so happy when she talks about them. I think it’s not all good for her, but it probably makes her spirit better so I wouldn’t prohibit her from using social media. Do you have any experiences to share like this?

　

　　　

  

                                                                                                                                                                  2.    This is very useful as a communication tool.                                                                           

 Social media provides something we couldn't exist without.  Group chat. Certainly, we could talk as a group using e-mail, but we can connect more easily when we use social media. We can recognize sooner “when who said what” if we see our device. If we talk on e-mail, we have to open each e-mail when we want to see contents in it. This system helped me a lot when I had to do group work because we can chat anytime when we cannot meet. It makes the work very efficient. We can see our chat in balloon, so I didn’t need to open a lot of e-mails like I did before. We think this system is very helpful.  

3.     “Follow” and “like” makes people happy.

 If someone follows us or likes our post we feel so happy. There was a singer and my friend is a fan of him and when he followed her she was so happy that she couldn't control herself and she told our friends. If some famous people like or comment on our picture we get so happy because fans are always like that. If they follow us or like our photo we can see that.

4.     Social media is easy nowadays; you can talk to each other no matter where you are and you can see them as well.

 If there is wi-fi you can connect, you can contact someone anywhere on social media. Sending a message, sending a photo, calling, video calling…you can do everything. I mentioned above, it made a lot of progress as a communication tool. And we can talk easily if you want to talk to someone you haven’t met. I have talked with someone I haven’t met on social media. She was much older than me and very clever. If we didn’t use social media, I wouldn’t be concerned with her… We can make many friends in social media we can trust. We think almost everyone has the same experience. We can get along with anyone around the world nowadays.