what is social media? I think that social media is a media where an individual can create it's source. Such as the Facebook (the movie we saw is all about Facebok), twitter, youtube and all other kind of sources. I think that social media can be stated as a media that is created not with really PROFESSIONAL informations but sources that an individual can get easily. Social media is not more of telling others about information that is very big size, such as an information that all people in a sociaety cna use but for small groups. It can be used to share one's feelings or ideas that one has. I think that social media cna be said in one word all the media besides news that we use on the internet, such as twitter, youtube and facebook etc.
I personally think that weakness of the social media is that there is no privacy. Most of social media that we know is all internet based. If someone posts a writing on their blog or update their status on facebook or twitter or even put up a video on Youtube everyone will be able to see it in few seconds. People who don't know you will be able to see it and it maybe invading another's privacy that they want to keep. Also their is another problem related to it which is that these informations that are from social medias can be misused. Informations that are mostly used in social medias are not FACTS but more likely a feeling someone has or somethings they have experienced. Those things put up on the internet without thinking could ruin one's life. Such happening is shown in the movie "the social network" when Zookerberg posts about his ex-girl friend it have ruined her image and it couldn't have been fixed again. So these informations or other things found in social media can hurt or ruin someone with out the person knowing it. It can also be used in the wrong way.
However, there are always the good sides of the social media not only the bad side of it. Good side is that information in social media could get spread fast and widely. For instance twitter is used widely by companies such as airlines so they could post things on their twitter account which will make the customers able to see if their airline has been canceled due to bad weather. It makes other able to know the information quickly. Also other things such as terrible earthquake that happened in Japan, for instance, wouldn't have spread so fastly among people if it wasn't for Facebook, Youtube and other social media sources. By posting things on those sources other people were able to know how serious the disater was. If it weren't for those social medias things would not have spread that fast. There are both cons and pros to social medias. The good thing is that it makes informations spread fast to other people while the bad side of it is that it can be used in the wrong way to critisize others or mock them and also the fact that there is no privacy.
