Blog

     A blog has been evolved from online diary, where people will update their personal lives online. In this modern era, there are varies of blog like travel, fashion, happiness, health and others. People will update their blog based on some specific issue, for example travel blogger will update their travel experience, share how their feeling and experience that they faced during their trip.

     20 years ago, blog does not exist but now there are millions of blog that we can find it online. Blogging not only a platform for someone to express themselves, but it also have others benefits. One of the benefits of blogging is that you can gain influence. A successful blogger gains people who trust and respect them. Those, in this day we can see that many famous blogger actually is sponsored or hired by certain business people to help them promote their product. This is because, audiences are more easily influence by their idol rather than normal salesman that try to approach them and sell them a product.  

     Here are a travel blogger that I liked: http://www.adventurouskate.com/. She quit her job and decided to travel alone to the world at the age of 26. The spirit and courage make me admired her.  She spent six months in Southeast Asia and turned her travel blog into a full-time business.

"I believe that it’s best to teach by example, and my ultimate goal is to show women that independent and solo travel can be safe, easy, and a lot of fun." 

     I like her blog because she not only shared her experience but she also gave her's reader some advices about how to travel safe.  She proved to all women that it is possible for a woman to have a dream, travel alone the world and make new friends in every destination. Do you have any blogger that you like too?

The impacts of social media on society

Society nowadays are known as digital natives which are born after the digital technology being introduced and surrounded by digital environment in using cell phones, computer. Social media websites are categorized as one of the most popular haunts on the Internet. Social media had changed the way people communicate and socialize on the website.

Social media or specifically social networking sites are affecting every group of people. For children, it may impacts their growing period, their childhood and increase the distance with their parents. For teenagers or students, their academic performance will be affected through the addiction use of SNS. The introduction of SNS has directly changed the academic environment of the students nowadays. It is being concluded that SNS did affected negatively to people in all range of age.

The distance between parents, friends, colleagues, lecturer-students and employer-employee are getting large with the presence of SNS. People tend to less in communicating face to face while more to engaging with devices and laptops in their daily life. Study has shown that families are spending lesser time with one another which from 32% of communication within family members in 2000 to 8% in 2012. Furthermore, during friends and schoolmates gathering, they were texting or on social media sites instead of communicating with each other.

One of the most affected social networking sites towards society in our country nowadays probably will be Facebook. The top social networking sites that Malaysians were found visited most was Facebook. Facebook is a social media which has been widely used by people from young to old age in this 21^st century. Facebook indeed has changed the way of people communicate, the way they interact with each other and even changed the way they think.

Facebook indeed provide us to stay connected with old friends and friends who far from other country but it make us abandoned our friends which are just besides and surrounding us. They connected to the person in electronic devices rather than the person who just sit next to them. They even isolating themselves from the reality and live in the world of social media.

                

It is very obvious that Facebook is a significant social networking site and it brings more harm for the people of all age in Malaysia. Whether this change was for the better or for the worse depends on how you look at it and how you handle it. We have to find the right balance in the use of social media in our daily life. The Use of Facebook positively to share your thoughts and keeping yourself aware of the surroundings are encouraged, but don’t cross the safe distance.

LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender)

LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender)

     Setiap perkara yang disiarkan di laman sesawang khususnya dalam blog adalah mempunyai motif yang tersendiri. Sehubungan dengan itu, setiap fakta dan isu yang dibangkitkan dalam media sosial turut mempunyai motif yang tersendiri. Malah idea-idea yang disiarkan tersebut berdasarkan ideologi-ideologi tertentu. Contoh isu yang biasa dibangkitkan adalah seperti pergerakan kumpulan wanita, kumpulan gay dan lesbian, kumpulan agama dan kumpulan sesebuah etnik.

     Isu Lesbian, Gay, Biseksual and Transgender (LGBT) merupakan salah satu isu hangat yang dibangkitkan oleh kumpulan gay dan lesbian dalam laman sesawang. LGBT Community Center National History Archive mula diperkenalkan oleh seorang sukarelawan juru arkib iaitu Rich Wandel pada tahun 1990. https://gaycenter.org/about/history

   

                                            wanita dalam pakaian bercampuran jantina - c. 1920

  

pasangan lesbian - c. 1970s.

Medium yang digunakan?

     Menurut blog yang saya baca, LGBT semakin kuat menerima sokongan daripada lapisan masyarakat terutamanya di Negara Barat seperti Amerika dan New Zealand. Selain itu, mereka juga mempunyai pusat pergerakan sendiri iaitu Support the Center LGBT Community yang ditubuhkan pada 1983. Golongan LGBT telah menggunakan berberapa medium untuk menarik perhatian orang ramai dan menperjuangkan hak-hak mereka. Media sosial seperti blog dan Facebook merupakan salah satu medium utama yang digunakan oleh golongan LGBT untuk menyebarkan idelogi mereka. http://www.suarakita.org/2015/02/propaganda-anti-lgbt-di-malaysia/.

                                    sekolah Japan yang menjalankan kempen LGBT 

                                                                      

Pusat LBGT yang menyokong sentimen LBGT di Amerika

                                                                

Puak-puak yang menyokong golongan LGBT.

 

                         Antara program yang dipaparkan untuk memperjuangkan hak LGBT.

     Isu LGBT menjadi bualan hangat dalam kalangan masyarakat sama ada di dalam atau luar negara, termasuk juga di Malaysia. Walaupun golongan ini merupakan golongan minoriti namun pergerakan mereka dalam menyebarkan isu ini amat kuat mempengaruhi fikiran masyarakat. Jumlah pengikut pergerakan LGBT juga semakin ramai dan mereka berjaya mendapat perhatian seluruh dunia.

     Sejak sekian lama isu LGBT mendapat tentangan  daripada pelbagai lapisan masyarakat kerana ia dianggap sebagai satu amalan yang bertentangan dengan nilai-nilai agama. Namun golongan ini sangat bijak, mereka telah menggunakan hak-hak asasi manusia untuk menjadi pelindung utama mereka dalam mengembangkan isu ini. Walaupun pergerakan LGBT menggunakan hak-hak asasi manusia untuk memperjuangkan hak samarata dalam masyarakat telah diterima di Negara Barat seperti Amerika dan New Zealand, namun negara lain seperti Malaysia di mana agama Islam merupakan agama rasmi di Malaysia masih mendapatkan tentangan yang kuat. Contohnya berita yang disiarkan dalam MalaysiaKini, isu LBGT mendapat tentangan hebat dari anti-LGBT. Mereka berpendapat bahawa isu homoseksual adalah tidak toleran dan bertentangan dengan ajaran Islam. http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/180608. Bagi mereka, seorang umat Islam haruslah menjauhi amalan homoseksual kerana larangana amalan ini termaktub dalam Al-Qur’an. 

The Negative Effect of New Media: Dating and Romance Scam.

      It is clear to say, people can construct or build a totally different identity through the internet. The problem arisen, people were misused the internet. There is too much cases reported for dating and romance scam while it happened all over the world.

      What is dating and romance scam? The scammers plays on emotional triggers that lower the defences by appealing to the victims romantic and compassionate side. Normally, the scammer will request the victims to provide them money, gifts and also their personal details. At first, the scammers will target the victims by creating fake profiles on the social websites such as facebook, instagram, twitter and wechat or even some dating websites. Once they start contact with the victims, they will express strong emotion on them and creating a romantic lovestory while making them believes they are the true love. If the scammers are in other country, they will start to pretend that they wanted to go visit the victims and ready to book a flight for meet up. All of this was coax with delusive promises.  Time by time, they gained trust from the victims and they will have plenty of reason to ask for money, gifts and personal details.

sugar-coated truth.....

      Their great story would be they were claim to be the depths of despair due to financial problem or ill family member. Alternatively, they might also claim to get serious sickness such as cancer or accident, then, they will ask the victims to pay for their bills. The victims always feel sympathy and started to sent them money. The stories was old but still lots of people being trapped.

At the end, the victims will end up losing alot of money. That is always impossible to claim back all the money from the scammers and other than that, the victims would feel the long lasting emotional betrayal at the situation of someone you thought loved you and so called “true love” and trustworthy.

      Not only women being cheat, while men also always cheated by the scammers. The victims range have no different in gender, profesional, educational level and social status. There is a news in Malaysia during 2014 regarding a female doctor loses RM1.5 millions to a Casanova scam( Doctor loses RM1.5 millions to internet scam.). She was first love bombed with a purported American Allen J.Ackermann. the reason why she felt into the trap was the men she met through a dating agency said everything she wanted and needed to hear. 

this is a true story about dating scam. can have a look ...

                           

This are the tips to prevent being tricked by internet scammers

Lastly, Be Smart & Protect Yourself.

     

New Media and Identity Construction

“Your online identity in the future is unlikely to be a simple Facebook page; instead it will be a constellation of profiles, from every online activity.” ------ Eric Schmidt, Google chairman.

      Internet and new media has significantly impact our daily lives including how we interact with one another and the world around us. Today, news media and social media sites has become a trend. Even for the people who are not actively using social media sites also cannot avoid noticing its everyday presence. The social media site has been rapidly adopted by people and it worldwide use as a new communication tools and a new way of socializing.

       Through using social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram, we can express our feeling, sharing our interest and also follow the person or page which like. However, did you realise that these online behaviour are giving great impact to the concept of identity? Or did you know that your social media online news feed does not quite measure up your friends’ real identity through his or her status updates? 

The social media identity vs. the reality. 

      Whether we realize it or not, the concept of identity which we are developing with the use of social media sites does not really reflect the reality of “us”. How we know what ways we should construct our identity in social media? We should construct an identity that is either completely true to ourselves, or is in fact a different identity that we want to project to the outside world? 

      What we need to do is to begin to understand that identity construction in social media sites is not a bad thing. Therefore, we should be wise while sharing emotion, posting information and uploading photos or video in social media sites. That would affect others’ perception towards you and it also have the implication on your identity constructions.

      So, when we post or share something in social media sites, we need to ask ourselves three questions which How, How and What.

1.                  Why I post or share this status?

2.                  How others perceive toward me while saw this post or share?

3.                  What the implication of this post or share on my identity construction?

      Lastly, have a look at this short video which explain how people construct their identity in new media. Have fun!