Sunday, March 1, 2009

Blog Assignment Topic 1 : Social media



Critical Reflection 1
“Social Media In Plain English” is talking about social media in our daily life. Social Media is a platform for people to share opinion, ideas and every single little things that happened around them. Youtube, Dailymotion, Myspace and Facebook are the most well known social media platform among others. The video used ice-cream to represent the social media. Owners put up boards so that customers can rate, comment, and describe their ice-cream to make things easier for other customers when making decisions. Most of the websites now provide rating and commenting system so the public can voice their opinions so that the owner of the site can improve. Besides, it also get people closer and create a fun and interesting online community.

Critical Reflection 2
Social Media is a tool for human to communicate among each other. Discussion and sharing ideas can be done through social media such as Blogger and Youtube where you can publish your comment on it.

Business can also incorporate with social media to gain more benefits. Through the ratings and comments published by users on the net, companies can improve on their products according to the suggestion provided by users. Besides, comment from users are more direct and more convincing if compare to advertisement. The companies can indirectly save cost to promote their product where the extra budget can be used to improve the product itself.

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