Facebook and Twitter are becoming very popular when it comes to reading our news. It's easy and fast. Not only that but you can see instantly what the news article is about - they only post the title and then send a link to their article.
There are currently around 600million people worlwide on Facebook and 200million on Twitter, so by creating fan pages for news websites you can effectively reach 800million people. That is of course if they join your fan page.
You see it on TV now. TV shows tell you how you can contact them or find out their latest news and almost every single TV show tells us we can reach them on Twitter and Facebook. With so many people signed up to social networking sites isn't this the best media to reach people? Especially young people. Generation Y have grown up with technology and Generation X have very quickly adapted to using it. So this to me seems like the best form of media to get news through to people - other than the 6o'clock news of course.
Not only that but if you buy a newspaper, you get so much information that you don't even want to read. You have to flick through until you reach the section you're interested in or you flick through until a headline catches your eye. With social networking and even just going to a news website such as the New Zealand Herald website, you can filter which news you want to read. I know that I'm interested in national news, world news and sports news, therefore I can join the Facebook groups for Stuff.co.nz but instead of getting everything I only get national, world and sports news. This makes it a lot easier and faster for me to see what is happening. I don't have to scroll through hundereds of pages to reach what I want to read about.
With 77% of NZ's adult population having readily available access to the internet there also seems to be less need to have print newspapers. I know when I walk into my local supermarket the first thing I see if the daily NZ Herald, I have quick look at the front page headline and if it's interesting then I'll keep a mental note of it. Keeping a mental note of it allows me to go home and search it online. It saves about 3dollars, that isn't much when I have so much else going on in my life, the last thing I have time for is to sit down and read a newspaper.
Also with social networking, you can get text message alerts when it comes to news. This is very handy, especially if I'm on the go all the time but still want to keep up to date with the news.
One thing I will say about having print newspapers is that you get a sense of connectedness (if that makes sense). Online news is very impersonal and I do believe that it's harder to read online than it is in print form. But hey, our technologically advanced world is changing rapidly and no-one has a choice but to move with it. It will leave you behind but you have to catch up at some point.
There are currently around 600million people worlwide on Facebook and 200million on Twitter, so by creating fan pages for news websites you can effectively reach 800million people. That is of course if they join your fan page.
You see it on TV now. TV shows tell you how you can contact them or find out their latest news and almost every single TV show tells us we can reach them on Twitter and Facebook. With so many people signed up to social networking sites isn't this the best media to reach people? Especially young people. Generation Y have grown up with technology and Generation X have very quickly adapted to using it. So this to me seems like the best form of media to get news through to people - other than the 6o'clock news of course.
Not only that but if you buy a newspaper, you get so much information that you don't even want to read. You have to flick through until you reach the section you're interested in or you flick through until a headline catches your eye. With social networking and even just going to a news website such as the New Zealand Herald website, you can filter which news you want to read. I know that I'm interested in national news, world news and sports news, therefore I can join the Facebook groups for Stuff.co.nz but instead of getting everything I only get national, world and sports news. This makes it a lot easier and faster for me to see what is happening. I don't have to scroll through hundereds of pages to reach what I want to read about.
With 77% of NZ's adult population having readily available access to the internet there also seems to be less need to have print newspapers. I know when I walk into my local supermarket the first thing I see if the daily NZ Herald, I have quick look at the front page headline and if it's interesting then I'll keep a mental note of it. Keeping a mental note of it allows me to go home and search it online. It saves about 3dollars, that isn't much when I have so much else going on in my life, the last thing I have time for is to sit down and read a newspaper.
Also with social networking, you can get text message alerts when it comes to news. This is very handy, especially if I'm on the go all the time but still want to keep up to date with the news.
One thing I will say about having print newspapers is that you get a sense of connectedness (if that makes sense). Online news is very impersonal and I do believe that it's harder to read online than it is in print form. But hey, our technologically advanced world is changing rapidly and no-one has a choice but to move with it. It will leave you behind but you have to catch up at some point.
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