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.
An interview with Mika Zahar about social media.
text: Hi I am Mika Zahar and I am introducing the Facebook on the Ipad, The Ipad is very sociable for Facebook and every network which you can contact to, the Ipad is very …
Me, what kind of network except Facebook do you use?
I use facebook which is good for talking to people who aren’t in the same country, like in canada.
me: Do you have any friends in Canada?
Yes I do, so Facebook helps , there is also Twitter which I don’t use but everyone uses it.
Why dont you use Twitter?
I don’t know
ME:So… no specific reason?( in arabic)
Yup
Me: do you have a Blog?
Yes I have A blog, I don’t use it anymore but people still see it.
Me: Why did you stop uploading on your blog
Because I forgot my password.
Me: you can have another Password you know
ok I will have another password, and…(incomprehensible phrase)
Me: Stop screwing around Mika haha, What do you like to do on Facebook you play any games?
No…(incomprehensible word)
Me: all the time ( I am lost guys sorry)
pretty much
Me: Whats the application you have on your Ipad that helps you connect with friends
There is Facebook which I kind of am into right now, Twitter, all sociable networks that you can use.
Me: there is one I saw, (french) the one I saw earlier man, the one you go into and talk to your friends?
Oh ahh E buddy its a chatting tool with Facebook and MSN.
Me wich one do you prefer?
for chatting
Me: everything
Facebook not E buddy, I also like Myspace
Me: you like Myspace? ( stupid question huh?)
Yes but I never go on it (not so stupid now is it)
Me: How do you like it if you never go? (the plot thickens)
I went twice
Me: to check out bands?
Yes
Me: cool me too
thank you Mika Zahar bye
interviewing Myrna Zahar about social media in Lebanon and how it affects her personally
text: Hi my name is Myrna Zahar, I am the editing manager of a magazine in lebanon, joseph and saveur. I don’t have a facebook account, I just like to talk to people face to face, on the phone, switches to French: intermediate media.
me: doesn’t it bother you at work not having facebook.
no I once got an account on Linkedin, but that didn’t get me anywhere, wasn’t very helpful, Facebook is a medium that is intruding in houses,… its a very aggressive medium, people are too much in contact with each other, I like modernization, but this is too much.
me: doesn’t it help you at work: yes it does wen magazines post online what th are doing, the topics they are tackling, but facebook cannot be reliable as a searching tool in my field.
me :ok thanks.
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.
