Has social media changed the quality of information and news ?

Social media has definitely changed the quality of news and information. It is better to say that the presentation of news has been increased by social media because the news remains the same but the way they attract the people matters more than the news. We can see in the different news websites that most recent headlines and the popular news are stacked on the main page with the photos of the news. This let the people to find their choice of news in the easier way. Also they can search the news based on some categories such as sports, hollywood, business, politics and many others. Also nowadays many social media websites such as facebook and twitter had been the source of news for millions of people. Most news updates are posted on some pages, some groups and many people spread it by posting it as their status on facebook. I got to know about MJ’s death, Steve Jobs death, earthquake, etc. from the facebook updates. Sometimes rumors as a part of news spread on these websites as it allows any user from anywhere to create news (rumors). For example, there were tweets about Atif Aslam’s (singer; Pakistan, India) death before a year when he was actually alive. It mostly depends on the source of news and people liking about these sources. If the news is from their trusted supplier, they would definitely believe on their quality.

Social media has not only increased the quality of information and news but also the speed of spreading the news has been increased by social media. Compared to the newspaper, through which we can get news, the other day of any event occurred and also it takes some time to get the news on TV or radio, but with social media the news spread much faster than these traditional ways. RSS feed is one of the example through which people get to know their news from their trusted supplier in a fast and better way.

I never thought

I never thought
my money would change from a rupee to a dollar...
I never thought
my dreams would change from a desi girl to blonde beauties...
I never thought
my daily drink would change from a cutting tea to a medium coffee...
I never thought
the climate would change from +44 to -24...
I never thought
the fall would change from water droplets to snowfall...
I never thought
my greeting would change from "kem cho" to "heya wassup"...
I never thought
my departure would change from "chal kale malye" to "alrite, cya later"...
I never thought
my name would change from JAY to JAE...

But things never happen the way we think, Adapt the change...
I never thought, it would
But it did...

Social Media - A Biggest Shift

I believe Social Media is the biggest shift since industrial revolution. The recent statistics states that 96% of Generation Y has joined the social network. We can find almost every people on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace or any other networks. Also, recently stats showed that Facebook added more than 1.5 million of content which includes blogs, links, notes, photos which are shared on it every single day. Facebook is not just a social networking website, but also a place for professionals. It has been said that in the past we have to find the news, but now the news find us. Same is for the products and services. Before we find them, they find us via social media. Not only Facebook, Twitter has also been a most common network now. Last year, Tweets grew to 35 million per day and now a days, there are more than 50 million tweets everyday which is an average of 600 tweets per second. 80% of Twitter and Facebook usage is on mobile devices, which also cause shift in the market for smartphones. People update anywhere, anything and anytime. Today, news spread much more faster through social media rather than TVs, Radios or any other media.

Youtube is the second largest search engine in the world. youtube count hits 3 billion views per day and 48 hours of video are being uploaded per minute. Porn activity has been taken as the number one activity rated by social media. Wikipedia has more than 13 million articles and more and more articles are added everyday. It serves as the best sources of information. 80% of companies use Linkedin as the primary tool to find employees which indicates that social media has also changed the job seeking procedures. Social media plays a bigger role in this present world but on the negative side, it is replacing traditional methods of communication and interaction.