The phenomenon of Facebook (FB) and BlackBerry (BB)
opened our eyes, that society is still very
require communication that is easy and inexpensive as possible. Cheap does not mean paying a little,
but users get more than the cost
already paid. Useless service providers or sellers of communications services offering Internet phone only a few hundred thousand dollars, but the connection is very slow. Although the pay is very cheap, but consumers end up feeling cheated and did not
interested again with such an offer.
On the other hand, the ease of communicating with a variety of ways, can now be done with just a finger. People no longer need to walk to the phone at home or to a cafe for those who have no telephone. Now it is very common, people to communicate in all circumstances and all places. Even the often endanger themselves or others. Just look at motorcyclists or car drivers who do SMS on the road. In fact I never saw a coconut picker, received a phone call while he was on top of coconut trees. Fabulous.
In many countries, calling, especially SMS and chat, is a traffic violation. Indeed there are exceptions, namely using a speaker (hands free), so the driver does not need to touch anything when I have to answer the phone. But the problem is one, sometimes phone calls can not be known to other friends who happened to be one car, so that in Indonesia, this facility is not popular at all.
Form of communication is not just a call or send SMS and email, because since the introduction of Facebook, a digital society increasingly visible power. Becoming more and more people are entering the world of Facebook. Not only to Rome, now also many paths to Facebook. Apart from computers, can also be from SMS, mobile browser, mobile applications, mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and so on. Recognized or not, Facebook has brought new economic currents. Just look at almost all phones now offer 'could facebook' in its advertising. Almost all mobile operators are also offering a 'connection to the chat and facebook' with cheap rates. In 2010 it may be said, the phenomenon of Facebook and BlackBerry will increasingly frenzied.
Facebook now reach all levels of society, ranging from the head of the organization and the skipper of business, to the elementary school children and domestic workers, already addicted to Facebook. Even in many ways, they united against injustice and closure. Just look at the opponent Crocodile Lizard cases, may collect more than one million supporters Lizard in less than a month. Now there is also a movement to support Prita Mulyasari society considers to be treated unfairly.
But officials of this country forget, though impressed kidding, but the information conveyed one person, can quickly spread, throughout the world. The power was easy to form and do not mess with great strength. Although no government fell because of facebook, but many politicians win elections with the help of Facebook, and many moral movements through Facebook, which ultimately change the decision, as in the case of the Commission and Century-gate was warm.
Government supposed to cleverly exploit this opportunity, using it to convey important information. In other countries, even Twitter was already routinely used to deliver the announcement. For example, when a national holiday, when election activities, there is a national exam or not, and so on. Currently the government has not considered that social networking is an excellent communication medium, much less formal, because we force the bureaucracy is that communication must go through letterhead, stamp duty, and signature. In fact it came from the former Dutch colonial times. Or, maybe the officials of this country we know, social networking is very useful for conveying information. The problem, they had no information that needs to be disseminated to the public. q-o
(Revelation Winarno Wing, Head I JogjaIT, Lecturer STIE YKPN Yogyakarta)
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