FROM SIX CONTINENTS TO A SINGLE GLOBAL COMMUNITY OR
NEIGHBORHOOD.
Weeks, months at seas
and
oceans voyagers spent
to reach
their destinations,
mails locally and
internationally took
days, weeks, months
before delivered;
news and happenings
around the world
required bureau,
syndicates, horde of
newsmen before
served.
International trades,
similar activities
required months, even
years
before impacts could
be felt;
thanks to social
media,
yesterday’s snail-speed-
today’s science has
reversed
to one world, one
people, and
one neighborhood-
wonders of dotcom.
Like a dream it began
with
world wide web,
the triple-“WWW”-
like magic electronic
mail
followed,
mails without postage
stamps,
mails that bypass
postal service.
With hypertext markup
language,
uniformed resource
identifier, and
hypertext transfer
protocols,
mankind launched self
on
super information
highway.
Imaginary highway in
a cobweb
style that creates a virtual
single community from
six-ocean-separated continents
into online actors,
dyadic or multiple concurrently
engaging in same or
different
activity as if they were
in
same neighborhood;
causatum and wonders
of-
social media,
magic from 20th
and 21st
centuries’ science.
Every day humankind
face
the books they are
not reading,
but pleasurably
shuffled through;
books behind
electronic screens,
humans turned papyri of
photos,
videos, comments, discussions
in
simultaneous interactions
by
heterogeneous
audience
nearby or far off on facebook
Daily, humankind googles out billions
tons of information
through search,
in a global computer
web structure;
no need for libraries
with index cards,
no need for book shuffling,
no need for dust-gathering
bookshelves.
No need for microfilm
or image,
no need for complex
preservation of
ancients, rare books,
and artifacts
as
action-packed-search-engine,
Bing-turns digital information on
computer chips to a
ready-made
texts for its teeming
visitors.
Yahoo-mankind has changed
from “a rude, noisy,
and violent
person” to a social
platform of no
equal;
from email to sports,
news, e-trade,
autos, weather,
homes, shopping,
jobs, health to
styles and movies-
noisy Yahoo now surnamed
orotund.
Unintentionally, but
excitingly
parroting has become a
way of
life to some three
hundred million
people worldwide;
without crest, bright
colors,
“hooked bills and
zygodactyl feet”
mimicking by
sedulity-
human keep acting
like parrot-
as they twit
endlessly on twitter.
Businesses and
professionals
desire fingerprint of
identity,
social media through
specific
professional network
provides
platform of
“show-yourself”;
LinkedIn seal-the signet ring-
fills this
role-creating a tunic or
toga of individuality
for
its own.
WordPress-man owes you
thanks for teaching him
how to publish
without
Gutenberg letter
press.
Wikipedia-a mobile and global
Encyclopedia you are
to the
sons of mankind;
depositary of human
heritage,
warehouse without
locks and keys,
vault for ancient,
rare, and
modern property-every
living
human-access whenever
wanted.
YouTube-you have changed-
humankind’s perception
of
entertainment,
teletube “sit-down-and-watch”
rent-me, and paid-theater-movies
to watch-me-on-the-move,
on mobile phone,
tablet, and
laptop.
Daily, through YouTube
millions of video uploads-
music, movies, and
broadcast-yourself in
public domain shared
with
friends and families
keep
changing world’s
structured
entertainment to a more
open-ended system.
Daily, we pin without
safety or
paper clip,
still bulletin board
never gets
filled as visual
bookmarking
help discover and
save ideas on
Pinterest.
Thanks to Instagram-the
instant photo shop
with neither
darkroom nor grain
coated films,
still the
pin-hole-lens writes with lights,
as it captures and
shares events of
the moment in pictures
online to wide
audience around the
globe.
Through social media,
mankind’s
ways of life is
continuously evolving
from a simple to
complex management
of himself;
from casual visit to
network sites
users make and keep friendship
without breakup;
unlike traditional
friendship that
comes under strain
and attack
every time for lack
of trust,
failed promises,
jealousy, third-party
conflict to imaginary
suspicion.
Network for social
change
network for political
change
network for global a
movement,
social media has
become a web
work and a reticulum
of
interconnected, people
of like mind
agreeing in opinion
and goals to
create a change.
Social Media will
continue to be
an ultimate-a driving
force in education,
a bedrock for
commerce and trade,
launching pad for
political change;
social media-yes-
will always be
a nu-plus-ultra-for
now, more so,
creating a new future
for humankind.
Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn, Pinterest,
Google+, Tumblr,
Instagram, VK, Flickr,
Vine, Meetup, Tagged,
Ask.fm, Meetme,
Classmate,
and those not
mentioned will continue to
have both positive
and,
mankind,
as science of dotcom
keep evolving and
ruling over man.
SILAS ABAYOMI
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