News has always been an important
part of our everyday life. We look to it to figure out what has happened around
our world even to the reaches of places across the world. The older forms of
news sometimes don’t give us all the information though. It’s edited and
sometimes import information is left out. Social media has increased the
quality of information, pushing news channels and other main sources to get
more information and go deeper into stories.
It seems that modern social media
has been pushing to replace edited news all together. Any aspect that the normal
news provides Facebook can seemingly do it better, faster and sometimes more
accurately then we had previously seen before. People do still watch the news
though but it has sort of transformed into a different thing. We hear about the
main news first on social media but it’s not a credible source, we don’t know
if it’s fact or just a roomer going around. Once we hear it on the news
channels its more of a reassurance. A great example is the tsunami in Japan a
couple years back. People were posting it on social media sites way before it
even hit some parts. People even had some time to prepare for this catastrophe.
Our culture is moving together to
learn more using the internet and specifically social media. People want to
learn as much as possible as a race we are hungry for knowledge. Every new
idea, opinion or even we want to share with the world to see. It seems to show
no sign of slowing down either. Social media has changed how we view the news.
The quality of news has greatly increased. We can see so many angles of one
story using comments we get a true idea of what really happened with no
“filtering”.
It will be interesting to see how
social media will evolve next. There are so many uses for it. The news seemed
to be a happy accident. It has helped the quality of news become better in
almost every aspect. Hopefully at one point in the near future our news will be
on a even higher level then it is now. Continuing to grow will be a great asset
to our culture and to our world.
