As technology becomes available to more people, there will come a time when almost everyone will be connected to the Internet, where most of us can interact online and shape the future like we’re doing now. Today, the web accommodates more than 900 million users. As time passes, this number will surely increase until there…
How users must be critical of what they read before they believe it. With social media, there’s a 50/50 percent chance of false news appearing on your feed. Well-known people sometimes turn up dead on the web when they’re alive and well in reality. Due to the shock factor this type of news generates, users…
Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Media as a News Channel Social media is a vessel of information for everybody. It is updated everyday with new data from regular users who drop in to share news they’ve heard, events they’ve experienced and, most especially, scoops on the latest hot topics. Users passionate about social media strive…
Why Twitter Dominates in Breaking the News January 12, 2010 – A massive, strong earthquake devastates Haiti. The rest of the world moved on, busy with their own lives. Seven minutes after the quake, Frederic Dupoux (@FredoDupoux) tweets, “Oh shiet [sic] heavy earthquake right now! In Haiti!” The world suffered a quaking realization due to…
How Social Media Became Popular in News Dissemination If we examine the picture above, we can see how social media is surpassing other traditional news mediums like radios and magazines. Although TV news is still the strongest contender, social media is now waiting to overthrow newspapers from its current second-place position. And almost everyone, especially…
Traditional news is almost exactly like wildfire. It spreads from one part of the community to another with quick speed. We read the latest tidbits from the front page of the morning paper, chew over the information on breakfast and talk about it over lunch break in the office. Later at home, we turn on…