The generation difference is the difference that matters at every point of discussion for social media, basically because of the change in attitude, behavior and more to that the difference in their way of reacting to the things and adopting the things.These differences can also be deliberated when we talk about the usage and adoption of social media.
Geeta Iyer is a teacher of Mathematics and she belongs to generation X, she could be said to be an active user, when we consider others from her generation,, but at the same time her usage is limited, too.
She uses the platform to connect to her daughter studying abroad and she does it by using Facebook or Skype.She also operates Twitter, Youtube but not in a broad sense, it is used either for songs during lazy days or just to kill the time.
She believes that she can be more involved in using all these tools but it does not seem to be the set priority of her life.She can use social media to connect to her students as it being a tool to stay connected with her old students and can use features of social media to bring all her students at a point.This can be done, may be by creating her own Facebook page; where all of her students can post about stuff going on in their life and can discuss about some topics and can do Mathematics oriented fun activities as she being a Math teacher and puzzles and quizzes being an interesting activity for her to do.
I am from Gen y and for me social media has total different ideology, I use twitter for debating over an on-going activity or for staying connected to big names and knowing more about the world. For me Facebook is all about staying connected to friends, teasing each other, uploading pictures,commenting, playing games and all such things. While I use youtube to listen to the songs all time and have the same application on my smartphone too; blogging and other tools like Flickr, yelp also used by me to be more in public.
We do have this gap and sometimes it can become hard to tackle with it as when you are organizing an event and you want to address as many as possible, you do not know whether through social media will you actually reach to people from each generations. As an example, if being a past student, you are planning for an event and you thought it best to use Facebook or Google Plus too spread the message, but you do not know whether you will reach all the past students as you can not contact all of them personally and you do not know, how active they are and which medium are they using most frequently.We can overcome these pitfalls may be by making all generations to use social media more effectively and making it more user-friendly than it is as older generations not being part of this development still find it difficult to use it.
Geeta Iyer is a teacher of Mathematics and she belongs to generation X, she could be said to be an active user, when we consider others from her generation,, but at the same time her usage is limited, too.
She uses the platform to connect to her daughter studying abroad and she does it by using Facebook or Skype.She also operates Twitter, Youtube but not in a broad sense, it is used either for songs during lazy days or just to kill the time.
She believes that she can be more involved in using all these tools but it does not seem to be the set priority of her life.She can use social media to connect to her students as it being a tool to stay connected with her old students and can use features of social media to bring all her students at a point.This can be done, may be by creating her own Facebook page; where all of her students can post about stuff going on in their life and can discuss about some topics and can do Mathematics oriented fun activities as she being a Math teacher and puzzles and quizzes being an interesting activity for her to do.
I am from Gen y and for me social media has total different ideology, I use twitter for debating over an on-going activity or for staying connected to big names and knowing more about the world. For me Facebook is all about staying connected to friends, teasing each other, uploading pictures,commenting, playing games and all such things. While I use youtube to listen to the songs all time and have the same application on my smartphone too; blogging and other tools like Flickr, yelp also used by me to be more in public.
We do have this gap and sometimes it can become hard to tackle with it as when you are organizing an event and you want to address as many as possible, you do not know whether through social media will you actually reach to people from each generations. As an example, if being a past student, you are planning for an event and you thought it best to use Facebook or Google Plus too spread the message, but you do not know whether you will reach all the past students as you can not contact all of them personally and you do not know, how active they are and which medium are they using most frequently.We can overcome these pitfalls may be by making all generations to use social media more effectively and making it more user-friendly than it is as older generations not being part of this development still find it difficult to use it.
