I’ll begin with our youth. There’s an interesting insight from a leading psychiatrist, Dr Himanshu Tyagi of West London Mental Health NHS Trust about the effects of social networking sites to our youth.
"It's a world where everything moves fast and changes all the time, where relationships are quickly disposed at the click of a mouse, where you can delete your profile if you don't like it, and swap an unacceptable identity in the blink of an eye for one that is more acceptable." He said: "People used to the quick pace of online social networking may soon find the real world boring and unstimulating. "It may be possible that young people who have no experience of a world without online societies put less value on their real world identities and can therefore be at risk in their real lives, perhaps more vulnerable to impulsive behaviour or even suicide." He called for more investigation and research into the issue.
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For the grown ups, age wise, indicating exactly where you are makes lives of stalkers much simpler. There are a number of ways to discreetly tell your pals to meet you somewhere but never on Facebook where you are seen globally. I get that we are known to be hospitable but allowing strangers, not visitors, into your personal life is suicide by all means. On a lighter note but still in relation with my point, don’t we, Filipinos, love gossiping? So, why then are you posting on your ‘walls’ about your heartbreaks, frustrations, and no-one-will-care-for insights on local, national and international issues? Is this really how we choose to show the world how either dumb or smart we are? Another thing, I don’t know anyone yet who isn’t guilty of this – playing Farmville and Farmtown. We engage ourselves to cyber games like these two even when we’re at work. I wish to charge this to our culture of ‘pakikisama.’ Since most of your colleagues are hooked into harvesting their cyber plants and prettifying their cyber lands, you join the group to stay significant. Perhaps that is the same reason why we ‘like’ what others put on their ‘walls.’ I get that all work with no play is boring but, really at work? I’ve already thought that browsing non-work related websites while working is a crime until Facebook entered our lives. Productivity at work will surely be low when we spend more time prying on people's lives at Facebook than doing what we’re being paid for.
The list goes on to illustrate how possibly Facebook connives with Filipinos' culture. Facebook seem to craddle our idiosyncracies from others, be it in a good or bad way. It becomes one of the platforms to showcase our talents and pitfalls. But an old Filipino saying goes, 'Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay di makararating sa paroroonan.' Point is, Facebook offers so many positive things for us but let's not compromise our ethnicity to stay connected. We should all still be Filipinos, sa isip, sa salita, at sa gawa.
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Resources:
Digital Nation?.Michael Alan Hamlin.02 August 2010http://computerworld.com.ph/tag/social-networking/
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For the grown ups, age wise, indicating exactly where you are makes lives of stalkers much simpler. There are a number of ways to discreetly tell your pals to meet you somewhere but never on Facebook where you are seen globally. I get that we are known to be hospitable but allowing strangers, not visitors, into your personal life is suicide by all means. On a lighter note but still in relation with my point, don’t we, Filipinos, love gossiping? So, why then are you posting on your ‘walls’ about your heartbreaks, frustrations, and no-one-will-care-for insights on local, national and international issues? Is this really how we choose to show the world how either dumb or smart we are? Another thing, I don’t know anyone yet who isn’t guilty of this – playing Farmville and Farmtown. We engage ourselves to cyber games like these two even when we’re at work. I wish to charge this to our culture of ‘pakikisama.’ Since most of your colleagues are hooked into harvesting their cyber plants and prettifying their cyber lands, you join the group to stay significant. Perhaps that is the same reason why we ‘like’ what others put on their ‘walls.’ I get that all work with no play is boring but, really at work? I’ve already thought that browsing non-work related websites while working is a crime until Facebook entered our lives. Productivity at work will surely be low when we spend more time prying on people's lives at Facebook than doing what we’re being paid for.
The list goes on to illustrate how possibly Facebook connives with Filipinos' culture. Facebook seem to craddle our idiosyncracies from others, be it in a good or bad way. It becomes one of the platforms to showcase our talents and pitfalls. But an old Filipino saying goes, 'Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay di makararating sa paroroonan.' Point is, Facebook offers so many positive things for us but let's not compromise our ethnicity to stay connected. We should all still be Filipinos, sa isip, sa salita, at sa gawa.
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Resources:
Digital Nation?.Michael Alan Hamlin.02 August 2010http://computerworld.com.ph/tag/social-networking/
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August 2010
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/04/08/10/filipino-internet-users-most-engaged-social-media-survey
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Revealing how social media affects Filipino culture is a concrete application of social change driven by technology. Since it is no question that we Filipinos are quick to jump on the bandwagon (Facebook, that is), especially technology that we did not deliberately create for us, a technological deterministic view most aptly explains the changes that we are experiencing in our largely mediated society. Our fascination with Facebook is indeed conditioning, if not reshaping our behaviour and our identities.
This paper is created as a call for us to not simply and naively enjoy social media’s conveniences. We need to examine ourselves in the process of multimedia consumption, and realize that social responsibility is as or even more important in our extended networked realities as it is in real life.
Our proposition for a Filipino-oriented, identity-sensitive social networking application emphasizes what we can proactively do to make multimedia technology work for us in terms of achieving our practical needs and building our sense of cultural identity, especially since we Filipinos derive most of our well-being from our social interactions. Technology comes and goes in the process of social evolution; it is time that we consciously move it in our direction.
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Although the terms "social network site" and “social networking site” both mean the same web services and are often used interchangeably, Boyd and Ellison (2007) prefer to use the term “network” over “networking” for two reasons: emphasis and scope. “Networking" emphasizes relationship initiation, often between strangers. Boyd and Ellison (2007) observe that many SNS users are not necessarily “networking” or looking to meet new people although this is possible on these sites; instead, they are primarily communicating with people who are already a part of their extended social network.
The unique feature of SNS that differentiate it from other forms of computer-mediated communication is not that they allow individuals to meet strangers but rather they enable users to “articulate and make visible their social networks.” Networking is not the primary practice on many of the SNS , rather it is meeting between “latent ties” who share some offline connection (Boyd & Ellison, 2007).
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Kinship as a cultural function or trait can explain why Filipinos are so fond of kamustahan, balitaan, tsismisan. We strike up conversations with complete strangers and, the first thing we ask – where are you from? -- even before we ask their names. The exchange usually progresses to asking about so and so from that particular place. It seems Filipinos know somebody from everywhere and we always seek some degree of affinity with the people we interact with.
The Filipinos' sense of kinship with its extended familial ties explains something about why social network sites like Facebook find resonance in our contemporary cultural consciousness. We have this inherent need or – lust – for communication, a need to maintain and expand our family network; to keep in touch with relatives, friends and friends of friends. For the Filipino, friends are actually the extension of the family.
“The family is what matters most to Filipinos, according to the Social Acceptance Project (2003) “everything else that they consider important is anchored on the family.” A blog by Jim Brown (www.articlesnatch.com), succinctly describes how Filipinos value family:
“In the Philippines, the family's importance is clearly on the top of all the priorities. Filipinos connection with family is arguably incomparable to any other race or nationality. Filipinos will do just about anything for their families. The Filipinos who leave the country and work overseas, they do that just for their family. They endure all the hardships in a foreign land just to send money at home. Such is the love for family by Filipinos that you would almost see the majority of families living in just one place. Filipinos value family more than anything in this world.”
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It is not so hard to see how communication figures into the Filipinos' sense of kinship. Communication and the technologies that enable it serve as the link that holds it all together. We can conclude then how communication technologies assume much importance in the Filipino's concept of well-being. This should also explain why despite poverty for example, the Filipino would endure hunger, forego a kilo of rice and opt to buy cellphone load.
The diaspora of Filipinos around the world due to economic reasons is somehow related to the growth in demand for communication technologies. The latest survey shows that two major groups using the Internet are the youth and overseas Filipino workers. Between the two, it is the OFW sector that clearly has economic significance being the only sector that has kept the Philippine economy afloat. It is safe to project that as the export of human resources increases rapidly, internet penetration and SNS usage will also surge.
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Dimacali, T. (2010, August 18).Philippines still text messaging capital - US study. GMANEWS.tv. Retrieved September 23, 2010 from http://www.gmanews.tv/story/198832/philippines-still-text-messaging-champ-us-study
Doyo, C. (2008, June 8). Family, not money, make Filipinos happy. Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved September 23, 2010 from http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080608-141382/Family-not-money-make-Filipinos-happy
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Ugarte, R., Pingol, A., Hernandez, J., & Dacanay, N. (2002). Chapter 2: History of Mass Media in the Philippines. In Txt-Ing Selves: Cellphones and Philippine Modernity. De La Salle University Press.
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The Changing Culture in the Age of Social Media:
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The Changing Culture in the Age of Social Media:
A Multimedia Proposition from Filipinos’ Fascination with Facebook
By Gonzaga, Ma. Elvira; Lati, Caroline; Martinez, Diana Jean;
Servano, Michael John; and Trinidad, Thomas Wim
Submitted to Claire David, Faculty-in-Charge, on September 25, 2010
As Final Requirement for MMS111 (Multimedia and Society)
University of the Philippines Open University
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This paper is created as a call for us to not simply and naively enjoy social media’s conveniences. We need to examine ourselves in the process of multimedia consumption, and realize that social responsibility is as or even more important in our extended networked realities as it is in real life.
Our proposition for a Filipino-oriented, identity-sensitive social networking application emphasizes what we can proactively do to make multimedia technology work for us in terms of achieving our practical needs and building our sense of cultural identity, especially since we Filipinos derive most of our well-being from our social interactions. Technology comes and goes in the process of social evolution; it is time that we consciously move it in our direction.
