Saturday, September 18, 2010

Twitter games: Najib tops list with 33,000 followers (The Star, 18/9/2010)

This is an individual opinion on the topic discussed in class today.

Twitter, one of the simple, creative and on real time social networking being widely used today.

After the result announcement of General Election in 2004, the government has concluded that one of the critical factor for the opposition winning the states was because of the alternative media broadcasting (blog, social networking, etc.) to the general public.

Nowadays, it is uncommon to see the general public to have their own social networking media (facebook/twitter, etc). Policticians also does have their own accounts so that they can interact, updates, communicate with their followers.

However, there are disadvantages of using this media, enlisted, not limited to as follows:-

a) Sensitivity of races, cultural believes and religion needs to be observed at all times;
b) To much disclosure of the activities/update may distrupt personal leisure time and privacy;
c) An update for a good cause may sometimes 'backfires' you;
d) Writing style indirectly express your personalities.

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