Through It All

“Their Words Are Our Lifeline In This Bad Times”

“Nakakabahala na yang sakit na yan… Grabe nakakatakot!” That’s just one of the many voices concerned on this sprouting case of COVID-19 here in the Philippines. So being disseminated of enough information and preparedness is crucial in this times. Thankfully, they are there as our “ears and voice” – the social media.

Daily update about the virus, nonstop advertising ways on how to prevent, control, and what to do concerning the virus, regular news about the patients involved with this virus, including the areas being watched out for vulnerabilities in spreading this deadly and frightening disease and many more activities in spreading awareness to this virus. Therefore, these are just one of the many just reasons why “media” plays a very important role in our home, in the government, and in the whole community.

Being able to cope up regarding the issue of this said virus inside of our homes is due to the fast-paced information relaying from the social media. As a quick dissemination of news updates helps our families in many life decisions, the proactive state of the media is just the perfect solution we could get.

Same as for our social workers, especially in the field of medicine. Although there are reports of ways to cure the disease in a herbal medicine way according to the Chinese doctors, there isn’t still a trusted vaccine created, and we are hoping indeed that their research for the cure would go well – even though I think that it would be at least from a time span of 1 year to eighteen months, depending on the government’s funding and support. Then there goes the hands of the social media, interconnected to them and acts like the cure itself. Why? Well, being informed of sufficient knowledge don’t you think is the best medicine we could get in this times? Prevention is better than cure, thanks to the partnership of the social worker’s efforts and the media’s connections.

Lastly, for the communities head – the government. Acting as the head and us families as its body organs, the media yet again played a major role of being the nerves that relays us what the government thinks and decides regarding to this mattet. For we can’t do a thing without a proper instructions and knowledge, the government do its very best to fill us with what we would need, as well as what we could do with the issue of this virus. For being connected to the higher-ups in obtaining various information is very, very crucial at this moment, thankfully, the social media did the trick.

“Salamat sa social media, alam ko ang ginagawa ko…” Well, the biggest impact of having a social media, is like a big boom in our worlds communication. It serves as our only legal weapon to fight such issues in our community in terms of information dissemination and knowledge spreading.

A world’s hope indeed, because we’re interconnected by social media – through it all.

“Never leave the light, you will fall to the Darkside.”

– Mark Jonathan Boniog

Social Media – it’s when we talk about different idle things found on the network dealing with your personal accounts, managements, systems and profiles in the Internet. Hence, it’s like your “own” life found inside a systematic lapse and interconnected network of individuals living on a virtual world of cyberspace.

Yet, if we think that living in the real world is a big, whole different story on living virtually on the social media – you’re doomed. Just like the real world, the virtual world is much full-packed of threats to the safety and security of our lives inside the Internet such as foul cyber crimes like hacking. Together with both the power of Internet safety ethics and powerful securities, let’s prevent the bad effects of this cyber risks and create a “lock” between our life in the social media and the virtual world of cyberspace.

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