SOCIAL WORLD or SOCIAL NIGHTMARE



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Is social media a good thing for the new generation or is it a destroyer?

Yes social media is powerful, wonderful and all that but, don’t you think social media is killing us? I mean it is a world of short cuts, where meeting is no longer important, we just say we will communicate online or via Facebook, twitter and the rest. We also find that in social media words are written using shortcuts, for example we make use of words such as lyk, lol, evn the list is endless.

My point here is that as wonderful as social media is portrayed to be, don’t you think there is some where it is essentially destroying us. Most students in Universities or learners in high schools find it hard to spell because of the world of social media that we live in, where words are written with the use of shortcuts and the avoidance if writing the whole word.( read more)

Think about this, sometimes one struggles to write a word because we are so used to writing words using short cuts, do you think it is a good thing or is the world going to change and we no longer have to write in full text?. The answer to that is obviously not, the world will never change and we only write words using shortcuts.

So let’s think critically about this, imagine you are public relations practitioner for a certain school in Limpopo and you had metric learners fail decimally on their English subject because they could not spell and spelled a number of their words using shortcuts because they are so used to it that it comes as second nature to them. May be social media is not as wonderful and we think it is.(read more)

Campanies and website SCAMS




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Is it that when one thinks about visiting websites one should also think about web scams?

Everyday more and more companies have come to terms with the fact that social marketing is something that is an essential part of the business word, but the question here is how do companies protect their target audiences that visit they online websites from scams? From the looks of things it seems as they are just not doing anything.

I mean it is so annoying when trying to buy a book at Kalahari for instance and then there is some little pop-up box that says you have won something whereas you have not won anything it is all in the name of stealing your identity information.There are tips on how to spot scams in social media and there are also on how to spot websites scams as well but is that enough.

Not everyone is exposed to the tips on how to spot scams so many of us just fall for the “congratulation you are our lucky 100.000 visitor and you won, click here to claim your price”. The number of scams on the net grows every day and people’s personal information are being stolen, so one can ask a question here and say is just creating tips on how to spot scams and not doing anything about them sufficient? Or is it that companies are too busy promoting their brands online to actually take the scams happening on their websites serious?