Social Media is Like a Saviour

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Millions of people are involved in the use of gadgets especially in using social media almost everyday. There are different social media applications, facebook, twitter, instagram, snapchat, youtube, pinterest, viber and more. Social media serves as a tool in communicating to our friends, family, relatives and even to those people that we do not know. As time goes by, we saw how social media became a part of our daily lives, even though in related to natural disasters or calamities.

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/119589/spotlight-on-ph-at-world-meeting-on-disaster-risks
https://www.adb.org/news/features/responding-natural-disasters-philippines

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Social media has a great and big impact in everyone of us. As a user of different social media’s I can say that it is very useful and a very big help to communicate, to enjoy and many more. So, how can we say that social media is an important tool in terms of communicating?

https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2016/05/top-social-media-marketing-blogs.html
http://www.marketingprofs.com/opinions/2016/29825/dont-fall-for-vanity-metrics-when-measuring-social-media-roi

Social media is became a part of our everyday lives. We threat this as a strong and very influential voice, that can reach million of people around the world. Nowadays, by the use of chat, video calls, voice calls, daily stories, sharing posts and more, we can communicate with different people and share informations. How can these different applications can be useful in the times of calamities?

http://acfc.asia/blogs/worlds-disaster-prone-cities-philippines/

How social media has helped the families, social workers and government in discerning information during calamities? Social media plays a big part in discerning informations during calamities. These informations lead people to be aware and be ready all the time in case of emergencies like theses calamities. Some of the ways in discerning informations are sharing different posts, reading news article online, chatting your loved ones for them to be aware, and many more. Example, GMA News found out that there is a upcoming super typhoon, therefore because of social media they can easily update people about that certain news and those people who saw it already they are going to share that certain post and can be prepare.