Hi everyone! My name is Kristine Grace and this girl beside me is my buddy slash my close friend- Stephanie, we are from section Perseverance. First of all we would like to thank Sir Rick for giving us an opportunity to create a blog and this will be our first time and honestly, it’s quite interesting, exciting, entertaining and challenging activity. So we hope you guys to keep in touch with us, support our new blog, and don’t forget to click subscribe. So, today we will discuss about social issues is relevant to social media and technology. Both media and technology are innovative advancement in communication and most people are using these to do a various activities because it makes their life easier.

Life has become more convenient and enjoyable because technology is made our lives more comfortable and easier to communicate. Nowadays, most people have computers, laptops, tablets, and even cellphones to access in social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social app platforms in which you can post something you want and what you feel. For instance, you saw many plastics and garbage floating near by the sea and highway as you rode a bus and the smell was so stink. Can’t you feel it how bad smell it was? Totally gross. Well, as a concern citizen, you decide to take a picture and post it through online in Facebook and many are commenting, reacting, and sharing your post. Two days after, you saw some people cleaning near by the sea and these people are form DENR, fisherman and other concern citizens and you didn’t know that it reach form local government; you’ll realized that technology and media has a great impact toward our living environment and society.

But there were also wicked part in using social networking sites and those are people haven’t put their significant value such as those people posting fake news in social media. Fake news is about false information and skillful manipulation to look like a credible journalistic reports so that you and all of the people will believe. According to Martina Chapman, a media literacy expert, there are three elements of fake news; mistrust, misinformation, and manipulation. If ever you personally received any kind of fraud news in social media and you know these kind of information aren’t true, you must ignore it and if he or she keep insist to entertain and persuade you because its good and suit for you something like that, that’s a totally kind of trick and deception. Report this or block him or her so that you less your worries and feel at eased, okay?

Another example of social issue is cyberbullying and Stephanie will be the one to discussed this issue. Cyberbullying known as online bullying and mostly teeanagers usually victimized and harassing fellow peers, friends, and mostly their enemies. If ever you guys experienced this kind of bullying, let them play their games with you because honestly, if you allow yourself involved and insist to stop playing around with them, they keep doing their things that can make them happy to see if you hurt emotionally and mentally and feel that you are affected. So guys, we hope that you learned the pieces of our advice and put that unto your mind because to tell you the truth, “what really matters is not what we bought, but what we built to do good: not what we got from others to do something evil, but to share something we want them to know”. Live a life that matters especially nowadays, social issues that we faced is a global controversial that provide information to individuals about the certain societal condition, especially with regard to the safety and well-being of a person.

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