Social Media Network

Since the semester began, the BI class has been more and more interesting to me. This week, Dr. Ram has talked about the impact that social media network had brought to us. To be honest, I have not thought too much about the advantages or usefulness of social media expect making friends or view interesting stuff. However, the truth is, the impact for us is more than that.

Basically speaking, sharing interesting pictures, ideas, videos, etc. with "friends"(can be real-life or virtual) is fun in our daily life. Besides, the diversity of the social media is also a good benefit for us since most of the social media is worldwide. We can know thousands of people from other countries as well as their cultures, languages, or habits.

Furthermore, knowing people who has same working experiences and sharing different thoughts can also improve our insight or comprehension on each event. For people who want to find intern or job, or intend to corporate with other companies, they might want to keep connecting with each other to improve relationship.

Nowadays, college teachers encourage students to use Facebook or Twitters to discuss knowledge that have been taught in class, which is also a good opportunity for students to share their own thoughts about the textbook or class. This is much more efficient than finding articles or thinking about what we learned all by ourselves.

Even though social media has so much benefits, there still are some drawbacks. The most significant one is privacy and security. Being aware of people who pretend to be others to approach you is one of the methods to avoid being hacked.

Finally, I would like to remind myself and others:

we should leverage the time of the social media for best benefit!