SOCIAL MEDIA: Come in Handy During a Calamity

One of the greatest influences of today’s modern society. While it is mostly used for entertainment, it is more importantly a tool to which people gain information from different life events, SOCIAL MEDIA. Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram are just some of the social media platforms that are being used by many. Hence, how does social media really give impact especially during calamities? Unlike in the past, wherein information is only provided by the media or the TV, radio and print media, the first people to receive news and information is only those who can afford to have the aforementioned sources, making the information pass days before it could be known to many or the public. Slow and costly, that is how they have it in the past. While today, just seconds of scrolling with not much money needed, we can already access different types of information immediat...