Social Media | onandoffscreen

1. INSTAGRAM. oh instagram.

As we speak…

I am on instagram. Having found a blog post on my rss feed relating to instagram here.

Studying media now, we learn about histories and technologies. The evolvement of technology has definitely evolved into the boom of mainstream social media. From friendster, to myspace, to facebook, twitter, linkedIn, blogs… and the latest craze INSTAGRAM.

SOCIAL MEDIA. Blows your mind!

Now. How did anyone come up with the idea that taking photos and sharing it with the general public would be…… A HIT!

At the end of the day, it is like what the original post addressed ‘EGO STROKING’.

We want to belong, we want to be part of this ever changing and constantly-decresing-in-size-because-of-technology-world. Instagram just seems so much more personal, since ‘pictures say a thousand words’.

With that picture that you just shared, you give insight of bits and pieces of your life to everyone.

Makes things really personal. SO WHY DON’T YOU SIGN UP.

I might just follow you.

2. GROUNDING.

This post was rather different. Scrolling through my rss feeds, I’m packed with technological ‘adjkmnlbjdsufbisyergbfhzvchjaakhdsbvk’ words. It drives you insane.

Then i stumbled across this post.

HOW TO RAISE YOUR CHILDREN.

I barely am an adult myself, having just turned 18 last year. Yet, I guess I can realte to what the post tackled. There are times I wonder how my children will end up. Not just discipline wise. But with media being everywhere now, children are so much more prone to external influences. Good and Bad.

Makes discipline so much more important. So everyone out there. You don’t have to be 25 and getting engage to think about your future. ANYTIME.

MAYBE THIS WILL HELP.

Remember, giving birth to a child doesn’t mean you magically receive parenting skills.

3. Welcome to the world of IMAGINATION.

This post was a review for what happened to Liu Xia, a chinese artist.

If you’re giving me the weird look because you have no clue who she is. SHAME ON YOU. *click here*

I, on the other hand, had just done a 1000 word essay on Liu and the ’empty chair’ in 2010. He had fought for human rights in China and had got himself detained. Some people are so willing to sacrifice themselves for art. With China’s government using their control over their media to suppress these fellow people.

No matter how you tie a person down, with imagination, there is freedom.

I created 3 google alerts for the following:

FASHION. OBSESSIONS. SOCIAL MEDIA.

We were suppose to wait for a day but I got 10 notifications in about 5 minutes.

So here I go.

For social media,

I found out through an article that it played a vital role in promoting the olympics.

“Twitter released its official figures, which among athletes, put Jamaican gold-medals winner Usain Bolt firmly at the top with 80,000 tweets per minute for his 200m sprint final and 74,000+ for his 100m. However, the single-most tweeted event of the games went not to a competitor, but to the mercifully brief reunion of the Spice Girls, who triggered more than 116,000 tweets per minute in the closing ceremony.”

LINK HERE

Social media has affected the Olympians as well as their sponsors in various ways. From fans support to occasionally added pressure and distractions.

FASHION

LINK HERE

There exist this hidden-stereotypical-mindset that if you’re pursuing fashion, especially guys,

you tend to lack testosterone…

But this article proved it wrong. Project runway proved it wrong.

The show started off on a low point but is now a phenomenon all over the world.

MEN CAN SEW!

OBSESSION

LINK HERE

SHARK WEEK OBSESSION.

Well I hate sharks.

And it’s trending all over twitter.

‘Let’s live every week like shark week!” Continue reading →