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.
I completely agree with you. Today social media is not just a means to stay connected to people on the other side of the globe, for it also allows me to express myself.
ReplyDeleteAs far as filling the gaps is concerned, making it more user-friendly and also introducing a universal medium would help.
The points you made in this blog are totally valid. If I give my example, me, my dad, my mom all use the social media website facebook. But, all of ours purpose is totally different. But at the end everyone's goal is completely same. That is stay connected.
ReplyDeleteThe arguments are totally correct. Nice thoughts
ReplyDeleteWell that's quite a thought. I do agree on the part that social media has gained a lot of importance lately for youngsters; but simultaneously even the elder people are taking a lot of interest. From my personal example - my father never even knew how to use a computer is nowadays a regular on facebook. So they are trying to cope up with the youngsters and try to adopt our generation and as well us our media forms. I had never thought that my parents would turn up a laptop and skype me, but yeah that's what they doing every weekend. That's the positive side of social media; you can skip the barriers and go on these types of media and put it down all the stuff that's in your mind and you can also enjoy the benefits of responses from various people. That certainly helps to look at the things or issues from other's perspective.
ReplyDeleteAlso I like the point that you raised how more beneficial it could be if the elders started using social media for their profession, that is certainly the next thing coming up. The elders are trying to advertise their profession or business via various social media websites. They are coming up with discussion forums where they try to converse with their business associates.
Moreover, the elders have started pulling up the information of their past friends via these kinds of social media websites. My father is reunited with lots of his schoolmates only because of facebook. So its likely that in the coming years the elders would be equally a part of social media as we are.
I like the study and that is true that by social media not only B2B but B2C has expand a lot. According to me that is more important where the business deals with the direct customer and clients knows A-Z about the company he is dealing with.
ReplyDeleteFor me, Social media is important, which helps me to keep myself up to date on the latest news and technology around my field. Which also helps me to interact with the people around the globe with same interest of technology.
Nice work Riddhi.
Kudos!!