Social Media: An Agent of Change for Social Good

Thank God it’s Friday! But instead of hanging up with my friends, I opted to attend the Bloggers Fest 2.0 which held at Trinoma Event Center last August 5, 2011. This is not my first time attending blogger fest. And every time that there is an event like this, I am very excited to attend because of the talks that every speaker shared with us which can give an additional tactics on how to write a good article and to be a good blogger. Bloggers Fest 2.0 has a theme, “Social Media as an agent of change”.

Why social media is considered as an agent of change? Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Tumblr are example of social media which we, wherever we are, we use these social media to interact, to connect, to posts and to share whatever thoughts, opinions and feelings we had on certain things. These social networking are now significant on our daily lives which changed the way we access information.

Ms. Gang Badoy, a media practitioner and one of the speakers of the event, spoke about how we bloggers can become positive change agents through social networking. We write and blog because we want to share our feelings and opinions. Though there is what we called “freedom of expression”, we must be responsible on every post we had. Since, social media has global impact. We should know how to control the power of social media for social good. Thus, social media is an agent for change. Just like we blogger, we are an instrument for change. We write because we want to share our opinions. For example, issue of politics here in our country. We write because we want change which will be beneficial and socially good for us.

Bloggers Fest 2.0 was ended with a successful interaction and put good ideas on my mind on how to be a responsible and effective blogger and use social media for social good.

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