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 immediately.

       Today, it is evidently seen that nature’s agony is bursting out. Forest fires, typhoons, and other natural disasters has hit the world. In the Philippines, particularly in the northern part of Luzon, the 7.3 magnitude Abra earthquake has recently stuck the region with series of aftershocks, thus, news spreading so fast around the globe through the social media world. It is an example to make how families, social workers and the government makes easier access to one and another. Families call out help in different parts of the world through posting their situations in social media. While workers extend services and information for people to contact them easier and meet their needs at the same time, same as through with the government which has its way to respond quicker to the communities, they are unable to check out due to a lot emergencies they are dealing with.

        In other terms, social media made the flow of connection easier. It connects people and it can at time save lives through the spread of information. Social media indeed, and somehow positively, molds everyone in the society to click with wit and post with a purpose.


References (Images):

https://www.ionos.co.uk/digitalguide/online-marketing/social-media/the-most-important-social-media-platforms/

https://icma.org/articles/pm-magazine/getting-more-social-media-pandemic-and-disaster-management

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