social media as a social search engine of the future
Few months back I was speaking witha female friend and she got unhappy that I had forgotten where she came from. I was embarrassed too so I asked her to give me 5 minutes.
In 5minutes I was able to know where she came from, her community, her siblings their information etc She was impressed.
I told her I used facebook, she was surprised because her facebook profile does not carry any detail of where she comes from.
How did I do it ?
I searched her up, looked at her post got to understand the people she was close to, followed them up, looked at their relationship then I checked to know where those people came from because someone was going to put it up somehow, etc
Whats the point I’m trying to drive home…
People will always define you based on information available to their reach.
The aim of social media should not be to amass likes, I learnt that early enough, since then I post things to allow people know what I stand for.
Every post is a careful attempt to build your profile. Many of us never get good jobs because of the kind of posts we put up. When they finish accessing your credentials they’ll go on facebook to understand your personality because certificate won’t show it.
In a world like ours we meet new people everyday, and we often have no clues to who they really are. In such situations we face the same dilemma when we are ignorant about an information and instantly we google it. The complexity of today’s social world means we need to know people and what they stand for. People we’ve never met are like information we do not know about and we are inquisitive about getting to know them, before making decisions on what part of our social space to let them enter.
Every piece of information is to enable us make decisions. And making decisions concerning the people we relate with is paramount to how successful we’ll become in the long run. Wrong people mean wrong decisions and wrong decisions, mean negative outcomes , which ultimately affects our lives.
As a result of this social media platforms are becoming a vital search engine for getting to know people, their past, present, preferences etc. While this is awesome in itself it also poses new challenges to privacy and verification of information. Most times people put up false info and sculpt how they want to be perceived and ultimately we become faced with the question of what is true and what is false. Is the glamorous social media profile we see really a definition of the real person.
In the future these are the problems we will need to solve, but for the moment we need to utilize this information source to get the most out of the relationships we find ourselves in. And also utilize it to understand the people we want to employ or add to our team.
