Apple Mae F.

Olar ABM 11-B

The Power of Media and Information, And The

Responsibility of The Users

Introduction:

Media is considered as one of the most powerful tools in providing information to people
or in society. Media is part of our daily lives. It informs, influences, and entertains us. Not only
they inform us, they have also the capability in shaping our lives. It gives us the opportunity to
be updated and to be aware in our surroundings. It gives us the opportunity to connect with our
friends and love ones. It gives us the opportunity to be citizen journalism. It gives us the
opportunity to share our opinions to the other. And also, it gives us the opportunity to challenge
ourselves on how to be a responsible media and information user. Nowadays people depend in
media. Media plays an important to our society. Nowadays people depend in media. Media plays
an important to our society.

Body:

Media and information plays an important role in our society. Media refers to the tools of
mass communication in which consists of television, internet, newspaper, magazines, books,
radio, and cellphone or telephone. Media can give us information that we need in order for us to
be updated in our society or we can be updated what is the latest trend. In fact, media influence
has become so powerful today that they can easily influence people positively or negatively. We
also live in a society that people nowadays depends on the media as a source of entertainment
and information. Many people would say that their life would be incomplete without
media. Why? Because media provides an easy means of communication in which people are
able to contact their friends and families from another side of the world. At the same time, media
like television, radio and internet enhance our knowledge by providing access to information
especially for those students like me that we badly need this media to get some information that
we need. They taught the kids how to communicate effectively, to spell correctly and have fun
with learning. However media have this negative effect. It can cause cyber bullying in social
media that we usually encountered. On the other hand users should be responsible on using
media like for example applying the different netiquettes and also the user knows how to
disseminate information.

Conclusion:

The use of media can be positive and negative to the individual or society. In a positive
way, media makes our lifestyle easier, for example, we can get to know what is going on out
there, locally or globally, within a short space of time. Even though there are so many benefits
from media images, we have to be careful not to let them influence us unknowingly. We need to
be wise when using the media and we should be responsible using media and remember one of
the netiquettes “think before you click”.