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Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts

February 2, 2014

3 Useful Things About Facebook

People and netizen nowadays are hooked up with Facebook. It's reality at the moment that almost all people have Facebook accounts. So why do people create such account?

  • Store And Upload Pictures - You can upload and share your pictures online. Since Facebook is now the biggest image hosting company. Over billions of pictures are being hosted and uploaded.
  • Upload and Share Your Videos - With so much applications now a days people are sharing and uploading their videos. Some of the videos are funny and some are also informative kind of agenda.
  • Entertain Your Self - A lot of games and applications that Facebook is having. Some of them are quite entertaining and fun to play. You can play with your friends also and keep the interaction with them.

December 13, 2013

1,000,000 Reach Kageron Facebook Fan Page

A milestone was reached while checking the kageron fan page. When the post was published it gained a lot of viewers. In one day it reached 44k viewers and it was rapidly increasing.

As hours and days passed by it just keeps adding more reach. As it went viral more and more people are coming back and commenting on it. So the post made a staggering 1,000,448 reach which we were not expecting.

Grats to the people who love the joke and meme stuffs. Don't worry folks we would do more of those kind of stuffs to entertain without any cost.

It's more like of a part time leisure that we post and share jokes. Especially when combined with an open beer =).

Here is the joke that gained 1,000,000+ total reach

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=575268895862220&set=a.326031107452668.77775.153798154675965&type=1&theater

Note: At the moment the total reach is still adding so probably it would reach more counts

December 6, 2013

How Did Social Media Helped People During Calamities?

First and foremost let me make this clear. IT WAS A HUGE HELP, Since most of the news feeds were coming from social media. News anchor and other establishments continue their updates via social media sites.

People are updating every now and then using twitter,google+, facebook etc. Constant updates helped others to be aware of the incidents on other places. Especially facebook when people are uploading videos and images.

EARTHQUAKE IN BOHOL AND CEBU
During the strong earthquake(7.2 magnitude) that hit last month people and netizen's uploaded various images. From fallen structures to the destruction that Bohol had undergone. Even when their are aftershocks people are updating their status.

As soon as an aftershock occurs some online users would took a photo and upload it. This just shows that people would want to share something informative online.

YOLANDA SUPER TYPHOON THAT HIT LEYTE AND NORTHERN CEBU

One of the strongest typhoon's this year that left a scar was super typhoon Yolanda. Social Media was quite helpful especially when it comes to the latest news. News feed would be constantly updated online when people would share their resources of info.

And even when the super typhoon started it's wrath netizen's continued to upload videos and pictures they took. From devastating current videos caught on camera they upload it immediately. It was clear that social media had made a huge impact in providing latest updates.

Never before scenes of pictures and videos that people share online were seen. Since not all parts of Tacloban were being covered by reporters. So people who were able to capture raw videos would upload and would start to share it to their friends.

It was also a huge help during the aftermath. Consistent updates were possible especially to current status of Tacloban Leyte. Images of the city were visible online for people to be aware of what happened.

Other volunteers would take pictures of survivors writing a message. The message was all about "FAMILY NAME WE ARE SAFE or FAMILY NAME WE ARE ALIVE".

This kind of information is quite crucial especially to the relatives. Since this would rest assure them that their love ones are still alive. Since this would preven
t others from worrying too much.

But some messages would just to sad to read. Especially when they tell and write about a family member that died. It's sad but at least and with all due respect it will still be shown for confirmation purposes.

Even international news personnel where forecasting. Internet had been a huge help during those days when it comes to latest news. People and their friends could instantly connect and communicate because of social media.

At the same time some of the Philippine government lapses and sluggish respond were also updated online. CNN personal was able to cover and witnessed how slow the Philippine government's responds.

And that issues went viral online because it was exposed and shared. Information now a days could travel the world in an instant. From one click to another online users could easily get informed.

Sources of the pictures:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151769626161977&set=pb.116724526976.-2207520000.1386263710.&type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151755856076977&set=pb.116724526976.-2207520000.1386263744.&type=3&permPage=1

September 5, 2013

The Good Impact of Social Media

These days people are hooked up with social media sites. People are starting to be active on these kind of community which exist online. From Facebook, twitter, Google+, ask.fm,youtube and many more. These are just some of the common sites that people are getting active lately.

Social media boost a lot of attention and the community existed online due to thousands of new users registering. The impact of it is quite staggering especially when it comes to news. A certain issue can go viral in a matter of minutes. Either that news would be criticized or be appreciated as long as it's been talked about.

In a matter of minutes the news would go around the globe and circulate quickly. Some internet issues that would go viral are scandals, rare videos etc. These kind of stuffs that captures the users/people attention online.

Another good impact that social media created was the interaction of different people online. Discussing certain things and topics at the same time exchanging ideas. Random people would know a certain event when they would read it online.

Connecting to other friends was another good impact that social media brought. People could easily find and connect with there colleague's. But it doesn't limit that it allows the user to find there High school and even elementary classmates.

Keeping in touch with your friends are quite hard before. Especially if they are on different timezone and country. But now with just a few clicks you can access and interact with them.

To achieve this certain kind of connectivity is made possible now with the use of the internet. And in a matter of seconds you are able to mingle with others online.

The good thing about social media is that it allows the user to interact online. It allows the user to instantly message someone in real time through chatting if the user is online also. It makes communication more easily and faster.