Social media: A new social currency

The world has gone digital and as such social media is a new currency that determines importance, nature of information accessed and ultimately opportunities that come through various interactions. Here are some tips I have found to be useful in utilising social media for the best:

1. Have a decent outlook, profile, pictures and impressively clear bio.

2. Before you post, ask your self if its necessary and whether it adds value.

3. Practice constructive criticism.

4. Never use profane language.

5. Be sensitive of other people's religions, sexuality  and general preferences which may differ from yours.

6. Always remember that contemporary employers browse through your social media accounts, be employable.

7. Do not post when you are angry or upset.

8.  Avoid tagging strangers, tag people you know and can easily relate to, those you know to be sober minded and honourable.

9. Have strong passwords and backup security options.

10. Thank me later.

Military Technology

The recent deal on Iran to stop using nuclear weapons in warfare raised my hope as i remembered and contemplated the horror of a similar case happening now in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bomb case.

bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and its effects

 

This left devastating effects which are being felt today as some babies in Japan are still being born disabled due to the after effects of the atomic bomb. It seems faced with such a sour history in warfare, world powers have not learnt to quit weapons of mass destruction. It is estimated that the United States spent more than $20 billion in the development of their weapons and navy. They have gone to the extent of manufacture a robot insect which spies on the enemy's weaponry. This level of aggression has seen huge deaths such as those in Yemen, Iraq, Boko Haram killings in Nigeria and other terrorist killings.

New fighter jets and missles

Social Media in campaigns

The twenty first century has seen the transition in ways of protecting and campaigning; from the use of placards, marches and violent clashes to a much more civilised way of turning to social media and creating links, tweets, posts, bloggs, hashtags and websites.

old traditional ways of protest

The first successful and global outrage to be expressed on social media, chiefly twitter and Facebook were the #bringbackourgirls campaign which even took the attention of the United States first Lady Michelle Obama to join. With one picture, Michelle Obama took a trending hashtag in April 2014 and turned it into a social-media supernova. In an image that has now come to represent the #BringBackOurGirls movement, it demands the return of more than 200 Nigerian school girls captured by Boko Haram. “In these girls, Barack and I see our own daughters,” Michelle Obama said in a five-minute address. “We see their hopes, their dreams, and we can only imagine the anguish their parents are feeling right now.”

US First lady joins twitter in the #bringbackourgirls campaign

Recently, Facebook and twitter have been highly trafficked with the #stopxenophobiaSA campaign, as people use social media to protest again the brutal treatment of foreigners, especially Zimbabweans in South Africa.

GLOBALISATION,;, REALITY OR CONCEPT?

Globalization (American) or globalisation (British) is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture. Advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, including the rise of the telegraph and its posterity the Internet, are major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities. This post will focus more on how the Internet and other advanced communication systems have made the world a global village whereby events on one part of the globe can be experienced by others at the same time but at a different location.

Globalisation is the ongoing process that is linking people, neighborhoods, cities, regions and countries much more closely together than they have ever been before. This has resulted in our lives being intertwined with people in all parts of the world via the food we eat, the clothing we wear, the music we listen to, the information we get and the ideas we hold. 

Image depicting integration of cultures, economies and  lifestyle.

This interconnectedness amongst humans on the planet is sometimes also referred to as the ‘global village’ where the barriers of national and international boundaries become less relevant and the world, figuratively, a smaller place. The process is driven economically by international financial flows and trade, technologically by information technology and mass media entertainment, and very significantly, also by very human means such as cultural exchanges, migration and international tourism. As one commentator remarked, we now live in a networked world.

However the ongoing debate about whether globalisation is a blessing or curse has made this concept questionable. The digital divide explains the selective nature of globalisation since not all of the society have been intergrated into the global village.