Social MediaToday we live in a world where social networking is considered the best way to communicate. Be it a workplace, school or a college, majority of the individuals are looking to meet other people and see how they can inherit or share information on the internet. It can be of any topic like cooking, sports, music, gardening, finding professional alliances, finding a job, marketing etc., anyone can share their experiences with the help of social media without necessarily spending any money.
The advantages one can get of social networking in any given profession, has made websites like Facebook, MySpace, twitter, LinkedIn etc. a very important aspect of communication at workplace in last few years. Social networking enables us to share a network of ideas and generates a lot of exchange of knowledge. It is not just a simple medium of communicating with others but a medium to do lot of things which a society wants to do it but didnt know how to di it.
(IMCOMPLETE*)Social Media in the field of education:In todays world, social media or social networking can help a student to learn and engage more. If one can learn how to keep their private and professional life separate, those who are in the field of education can take the benefits of the possible learning opportunities that social media offers.
The greatest significance of social media in the field of education is the changing characteristics of students entering various universities. Social media has three great qualities; creative, highly connected and collective and for this reason learning from social media can be more flexible and quick. The users of social media are generally described as “as having an enhanced capacity to self-organize and provide for themselves”. Today in many universities, social networking websites such as Facebook or Twitter are being used to allow students find an alternate way of getting adjusted with the universitys lifestyle by interacting on the internet with the faculty and peers. Studies have shown that shared
t is not essential to its completion and its impact on the life of a student. This is because the social networking world can have many facets to it’s effects of enhancing the educational system, including the impact of improving quality of life in the student population. It can also change the way students are taught, as much as a decade old
and the type of behavior they may engage in. Students are learning quickly, engaging not just to learn to speak but to move their learning to the next level. Social networking can, in effect, make students in many public positions or institutions much more flexible and change the very educational picture. The social world can also be used to help make a person feel more confident and better-looking and has, over the last several decades, allowed people to express themselves more clearly.