Technology and culture

One implication of social media is technology and culture that’s to say influence on human behaviour where by it has played a role in people’s behaviour to promote public participation, engagement and process of democratizing the public life. For example take the saga of the pro Malay red shirts that took place in Kuala Lumpur in year 2015 in protest of “bersih 4”, this was mobilised via social media like Facebook and twitter and many people came in big numbers to protest. Another is the protests of the Arab spring, the mobilization of resistance against the government of the Ukraine or in Hong Kong that was dependent on resources from social media (Aspeninstitute.cz). Social media is believed to be the most powerful instrument to influence human behaviour in a creative way with many responses from the users.

Social media and everyday culture

The other implication is social media and everyday culture that’s to say transformation of people’s lives in terms of communication and interaction, today the texting and online communications have emerged to another evolution of a new language through social media having many impacts on culture. Friendship interactions, peer to peer relations are believed to be increasing everyday through wall posts, and status. (Aspeninstitute.cz). New requests and followers are increasing on people’s Facebooks, Instagrams, twitter and snapchats everyday which has also lead  to online datings and the outcomes sometimes are bad such as embarrassment  through nude pictures when shared among the online daters.

Social media and children culture.

The other implication of social media on culture is social media and children culture which is a product of two interrelated and sometimes contradictory developments (Aspeninstitute.cz). This is a frequent impact nowadays days where by children prefer to be in their bedrooms stuck on their mobile phones browsing as well as playing games rather than being outdoors interacting and playing along with their fellow friends as it used to be in the past. Certained about this, it’s believed that this has a desire in the creation of their own space and enjoyment of their independence in order to gain their freedoms that may be lost. Many children are believed to have computers in their bedrooms hence keeping them online browsing and checking wall posts and status on Facebook mostly forming a forged world that is distinct from their parents through pursing a project of self-socialization hence insolation from family members (Aspeninstitute.cz). This has made children have their own personalised and private life from their own families and friends hence low interactions between their parents and friends.