As some of you saw in my videos earlier I had to interview 3 people on what they taught about the relatively new phenomenon that is social media in my country that is: Lebanon.
Mika Zahar a 14 years old student attending a local high school, but who had spent three years prior in canada was well versed in the ways and mysteries of Social Media, he owns an Ipad, and an I phone as well as being in Facebook and youtube, he even talks about web sites he never visits himself except for maybe once or twice like Myspace and Twitter, if he knows about them it’s because his friends, which he is still in touch with via Facebook, all use them, clearly the Canadians are more techno savy, and more in touch with their out of touch friends.
Mika is always playing his Ps3 or playing his guitar, but wen he isn’t he is facebook shatting with is various friends. And if not that he plays online games with them. so even wen Mika stays at home he is always connected.
Hassaan Masri is a business student who is greatly interested in Social media and I met him wen one day he asked me about a classmate of mine LamaHq and her blog, later I interviewed him and found out that he was really interested in the whole blog thing, especially in Lebanon. He likes to spend time reading peoples blogs. It seems that the younger generation ie mine, Hassan’s and Mika’s are more interested in this blogging thing then the older one.
Myrna Zahar is the editor of various magazines, so it is safe to say that she is well versed in the ways of conventional media, her views on social media, especially facebook are negative. She believes that facebook is too intrusive, at the wrong times, and too impersonal at the right ones, she’d rather meet a person face to face, she believes that the computer is impersonal. she still uses facebook however to see what he medias are doing, updating their medium and such. So there is some kind of use to it.
In the end wherever your stand on social media is, it is the in thing right now, some believe its a fad and some believe its a new way of live for ever after, which is scary to some people other than being exiting.
