Many of us are surrounded by other types of medias but for now, I will be using Facebook as a subject for my blog about on how it is considered as a form of medium or tool for communication.
Social media is all about conversation, community, connecting with audiences and building relationships. It is not only a broadcasting channel or a sales and marketing tool. Honesty, integrity and open dialogue are key factors. Social media allows you to not only hear what people are saying about you, but also to react. Social media can help you provide more detailed information on the benefits offered. For example, you might have a Facebook group that employees can join and use to share videos that further explain some of your benefit options.
Social Media also changed us on how we connect with other people that are either almost near or far from us. Let me take Facebook as an example, Facebook enhances people's ability to connect with others and form positive relationships with peers. Social media allows us to share our views with a much wider audience. Another big change that has taken place is the lack of a filter in the way we speak. Facebook has changed the way you communicate with other people. Before, when there were no social networks like Facebook, people mostly communicated with people from nearby places by talking and using old cell phones and phones. We also use Facebook to discover, collect and share information. It is not just only Facebook which changed the way of communicating through others but may it be also other social medias like Instagram, Twitter, WeChat, Viber, WhatsApp, and other forms of Social Medias.
Though Social media is a way to communicate for others, it can also affect the quality of the information that the sender wanted to share to the receiver. And by the quality of the information, we must be very quick or to analyze whether the information that the sender is either legit or fake. Most of Facebook users share what they want or any information that is very shocking without verification. This has an impact on quality as most of the time 'fake news' is everywhere and people tend to believe whatever they read or open. Much is given as qualitative information and it is very difficult to tell if this is true or not. The number is very large because everyone can share and express their position or opinion on a specific topic or situation.
For me, it has two different sides. This is good because we will have many sources of information for our database, but at the same time it is not good because we cannot easily determine what is correct. It is also good to have a database of information of varying quality for a given situation, whether it is a personal experience or something that should not be disseminated, or messages that should be shared with everyone. Bad in the sense that there's a lot of information so you don't know what to believe.
Facebook as a Medium of Communication 