How Social Media Has Helped Families, Social Workers, and the Government

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February 25, 2021

How Social Media Has Helped Families, Social Workers, and the Government

How social media help families, social workers, governments in discerning information during calamities?

Today, social media is one of the most popular uses to communicate with people around the world worldwide. A machine that requires a term to be modified due to high technology. Informing the simple standard of data. In cooperation and in contact with other people across the world, social media is really relevant. This helped households, social workers and government to discern data after crises. During calamities, social media played a significant role in emergency recovery. Any family can easily connect with their relatives from other places via social media, particularly during disasters. While it can be a method for social workers to inform the data through calamities. 

In particular, through the use of social media, our government will distribute or disseminate information.  Social media are computer-mediated digital technologies that encourage the creation and sharing through virtual communities and networks of knowledge, ideas, career interests, and other modes of speech. Users usually access social media sites on desktops and laptops via web-based technologies or download services that provide their mobile devices with social media capabilities. (e.g., smartphones and tablets). Social media changes the way individuals and large organizations communicate.

 These changes are the focus of the emerging fields of techno self studies. In the United States ,a 2015 survey reported that 71% of teenagers have a Facebook account. Over 60% of 13 to 17 years old have at least one profile on social media ,with many spending more than two hours per day on social networking sites. According to Nielsen,internet users continue to spend more time on social media sites than on any other type of site. At the same time, the total time spent on social media sites in the U.S. across PCs as well as on mobile devices increased by 99% to 121 billion minutes in July 2012, compared to 66 billion minutes in July 2011.