Social Media

Describe your idea and concept of your work in relation to the festival outlines:

So are we actually improving contacts, relationships, and the way we socially interact? Even though connecting this way can revive relationships, we still aren’t standing up to do so. We are typing, clicking, while staring intently at a screen. These friends we make and the trust we build differs from how we interact when speaking face-to-face in the outside world

What kind of communication approach do you use?

Slide show of different images of social media and what keep us entertain.

What are in your opinion concrete benefits to the society because of your communication?

Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Blogger, Tumblr, Farmville, Xbox Live, Skype, eBay, Game Center… the list trails on. Are our elders ashamed by what the developed world is coming to, when not sending a Christmas card is acceptable if you leave a short Facebook wall message? This is what our lives have become. It isn’t going to change any time soon, and much of the population are on-board. So are we in turn ruining our social lives? Are we losing contacts, rather than making them?

What did you personally learn from creating your submitted work?

To conclude, whilst Facebook and Twitter may reflect us as a person, whilst they do help us engage in some extra social activity, they aren’t too much of a problem for our social lives, unless they are over-used. It is the social gaming, the things that drag people away from their friends to participate in, which affect us. All in all, these are not helpful, will never help you, and will never improve your social life, even if the game is dubbed ‘creative’ and ‘imaginative’ which are the usual excuses. Social Media is making us less social, yet if we use it in moderation, use it to enhance the way we consume information, there really is nothing worrying about it at all.

Why is your work, GOOD communication WORK?

The physical aspect of Technology could be seen as just as damaging to how social we are. By texting under a table at a restaurant, by updating Twitter whilst in a meeting, it is obvious people are coming close to alienating themselves, thanks to this ‘addiction’ to the web. It is apparent in every day life: Technology is making us rude, as it distracts us from our friends.

Where and how do you intent do implement your work?

Uploading it on the social media sets eg facebook,Instagram,youtube and so on.

Did your intervention had an effect on other Media. If yes, describe the effect? (Has other media reported on it- how? Were you able to change other media with your work- how?)

In a day and age, where we can contact our friends and family while never leaving our computer screen, we may feel that we are being more sociable than ever. We can organist an event, virtual or not, and invite thousands of people, within a matter of minutes. And play a game of chess with a stranger on a far continent, via a handheld device. We can talk face to face in a video call, or give the world a news update by sharing a photo in seconds.