How social media has helped families, social workers, and the government in discerning information during calamities.

How social media helped families, social workers and the government in discerning information during calamities? In our generation there are many social media that we can connect with like the other known social media app; Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc. most of us have one or more of these social media app to communicate or get information about what is happening in our country or all over the world. By accessing these social media apps, we can easily search anything we want for example about news, by the help of social media we can easily read it in the tab or screen of our phones. This is the easiest ways to connect with our love ones and also access information not only in our country but all over the world. Through social media we are freely to communicate with our family or relatives that working or living in other country we don’t need writing letter just to talk to them and with the help of social media we can easily chat or call to them. While in social workers it can be a tool to educate them info’s during calamities. And especially our Government used this so that they can spread or disseminate information through social media.
We can’t deny that social media is a big help to ours. Do you remember when the super typhoon Yolanda hit the, Samar, Leyte? By using social media many people are informed like the other countries that we are suffering hunger and destruction of facilities brought by Yolanda. Also through social media the families that are affected are starting to post and tagging their relatives about their missing love ones and by this the Government will notice that many people are missing during and after the calamity. It is proved that social media the most used by people to seek help in other people and to the Government. Without social media in our life we are not able to know the situation of our netizens, or family. I as a citizen in my country I search news through social media it’s simply because in just one click all information are in their you can choose what news or with the help of social media it is a way to help other people. It is also the difference about media (TV, radio, and print) of course these things can help us to get information but not like the social media. Most of us are using social media and some are still reading print newspaper to get information maybe the old one do this and not the what we called “Millennials” who always surf in the internet and reading news there.
Social media and media are playing important role in our life because without these medias we cannot be able to know what is happening in our country or other countries. They are both important in our society because it is our only sources to get information with our family, in social workers and to the Government. Maybe I will be neutral with social media and media because they are both useful to our daily life. But I still prefer social media when it comes to calamities because it is easy to get information.