interview with hassaan masri with subtitles on social media in lebanon.
social media through the eyes of 3 generations.
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.
nterview with a college student about the social networking scene
the speech:
hi my name is Hassan Masri, I am a business student in LAU a lot of social media , I think the social network changes to arabic: is a big back of our daily lives, I open facebook at least ten times a day, even on the black berry all these things a part of life, one new thing we have in lebanon is blogging, not a lot of people are into it yet, but its getting known more and more. once I was surfing the net looking for blogs and found the blog and found LamaHq. wordpress.com so i enterd it knowing it was an LAU project
i lurked trough it and liked the fact that it was about lebanon
me: do you have other things to say
Hassan: no I am fine.
Gowalla
gowalla is foresquare , but more fun, in the way that in Gowalla you can plan trips, and even better check out cities and the places they are famous for, along with pictures and comments. just this is pretty fun and you can do it for hours, and then just plan trips accordingly, even if it is just for fun , it can help you create a story around events, and places.
as for the gaming side of it, i think its pretty stupid, i love video games, not social gaming like farmvill but more stuff like street fighter, and assassins creed, so the emblems and useless items really dont do anything for me, they are pointless, a bit like trophies on the ps3.
and now a pic of a 66 mustang but one of gowalla aint worth the trouble
Mark zukenburg
i have no doubt that Marc Zukenberg drives a Jag, because he is a rich business man, and well kind of an asshole. or maybe that is the lingering feeling left from the movie.
what I saw in the interviews is another business man protecting his enterprise with educated constructed answers, all that by staying politically correct in the eyes of the media. he looks like a man who seems to want to climb the social ladder.
my friend now works for his dad at a distillery, so I foresee a great future ahead of him. since making it big is hard to define, I will say he will make it big, because of the creative ideas he will put into the company, also free booze for me. hey who needs to please others anyway.
my other friend plays guitar all day and plays for a band at night, i think he is pretty happy. he does what he wants.
