Yes Prof Oha I did imagine your congruous presence could have critically extrapolated the most ubiquitous probing of them all,the Facebook.
After the Y2k, few years before the Facebook,Biodun Jeyifo , D.Litt(OAU) one of Nigerian Guardian columnists from Harvard University USA wrote a double- spread article on the onslaught of the cell phone on his personal life..What will the revered Prof write about the much visual and attach possibilities the Apple or Android phone which has expanded more captivity or otherwise delight of users?
How benign how maligning on our workaday?How much more incredibly expedient and facilitating
In knowledge production and cultural and commercial links?
How many will update their impromptu thoughts than upload their preferred photos or new graphics without qualms?
How many has reasoned that there can never ve equity of access in any communication tool on this earth?
How many is aware of the frequency of purchases of new upgrade of Steve Jobs spoke phone series especially among the Chinese people and professionals .If you know rightly they are almost as expectant of what's coming as their youth expect Michael Jackson for another dramatic musical show.
How recreational is the social media? How intimate or covetous or exceptionally caring are users of smartphones- market place inclusive?
What level of rubbish or welcome news or related emoticons and Instagram access?
Are they holistically enriching or damaging stuff to our psyche?
Don't you think-
What's on your mind? Of all regulars in the social media especially to those who aren't suffering from agraphia,inability to write, is the least democratic ,the most imperial query and viewed otherwise to those who are already ruffled with affairs of the state it could be a good opportunity to lampoon or lambast the failed state? As I have re-echoed elsewhere unless the consumer world audience either update their skills in navigating the cyber world or own theirs the benefits will ever remain choking or shocking or lopsided.i stand to be corrected.
Whatsapp was bought over,$19b,linkedin was bought over by Bill Gates from Jeff Weiner $29b and the latter has changed drastically in the used-to preferences of subscribers.It turned off many thousands and expected ly those associated with Microsoft globally love it.I can't forget a young female freelance writer,Victoria who felt hugely affected by the features excised due to new ownership.
She criticized the new functionality or otherwise of the website hosting the largest database of professionals.
Whereas it's not all about money but money in billions of dollars also gather enough influence in the Connecting phase of 21st c communications media online,offline too.
Do you have weighty evidence to show the declining power of print tabloid or media globally when almost four billion are now active on the internet? After e-zines and their archives have been established almost a decade ago globally revered print media like The N ew York T imes ,MoJo magazine are now soliciting any dime or USD to support investigative journalism.
How else can they be supported by to sustain essence of the Print Press locally globally?
Are you sure the hard copy news is powerless however assumed outmoded or becoming less patronized?
Do you observe meticulously that most of the world big news agencies also credit the big newspaper sources such as The New York Times,The Washington Post The London Times ,The Paris Review?
What's your appraisal of psycho-analysis of the news majorly from the West daily or weekly?Do you notice a preponderance from one hemisphere than the other?
Have you ever stumbled into DSA,HMT,Daddy Freeze,Chims Talk& Review of a book
I 'Church Mafia, a confession of a former false South African Pastor, Makhando Ranabulana?
How spontaneous do you connect or click Mutual friends?
Hoe wary are you like me in connecting strangers?
What news spur you other than your specialty to a sharing level?
Almost a quarter of online news are laden with violence and or terrorism with impunity.in fact any consistent browser on purpose will find out that illicit and criminal actions are happening all over the world inclusive of religious capitals and tourists haven.
Have you read the book Damaged Religion by Dr Sunday Adelaja?
Atimes I thank my God for missing big online news because who knows what volume of news will trigger melancholy or pity or even real tears not crocodile type -if if it's fully fed from sex slavery or crime report akin to this involving not lunatics but wealthy echelons who could have used such illicit opportunities to expand their biologicsl lineage?
Dave Fedes messaged in one of his Back To God Hour series in 2005 "his children will be mighty in the land"Psalm 112:2
Were it not for celebrity miscellany and opportunities to be and become better individuals what's else could have mollified browsers other than birds of the same feather websites, Google and Yahoo groups and the new sketchy yet powerful Twitter now popular ly quoted by top echelons in governance and media army?
That's what rulers of the global village are now using to reach all and sundry fast enough than hitherto,despite this is fast jumping official protocol
It's also vital to do more justice to sociological,psychological implications of
'What's on your mind?'especially the spontaneous creativity it triggers or otherwise do you see it as an affront?
Thanks for provoking 'this again Prof Oha
Gbemi Tijani MST
Paul Harris Fellow
On Jul 23, 2019 1:16 PM, "Obododimma Oha" <obodooha@gmail.com> wrote:
My previous blog share reminded me that this listserv is an example of
electronic writing and that, with it, I don't need to break my slate
on somebody's head at the playground. Playground? What playground
today is more popular than Facebook? So, one can join many others in
looking at Facebook or its trajectory as a worthy subject of study.
That is essentially what you find in this blog essay. To read the full
piece, please, click on this link:
https://x-pensiverrors.blogspot.com/2019/07/a- semiotic-reaction-to-facebook- update.html
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Obododimma.
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