Personal Journey Use of Social Media and a Memoir

Question: Dsicuss about thePersonal Journeyfor Use of Social Media and a Memoir. Answer: Introduction A memoir is a written statement of the memories or someones personal experience or story of life. Earlier a memoir was segmented as a part of autobiography or biography. It is also regarded as inexpensive digital publication of someones thoughts and stories. Here there has been analyzed an article written by Dani Shapiro, titled, A memoir is not a Status Update. The article focuses on the happening of any non-happening event and because of the increase social media usage the event is just taking as a memoir and people start commenting on the same instead of having an emotional touch or a conversation (Shapiro, 2014). Increased Use of Social Media and a Memoir An article has been published by Dan Shapiro which has been analyzed and evaluated thoroughly. In present time there are number of social media which are rising apparently as the present generation is highly connected to these social sites which connect people from different corners of the world. These include social sites such as Facebook, online dating sites, Snapchat, Pinterest etc. these social sites or pages are widely recognized in developing social connections across the world. Facebook is one such social media which is well recognized for sharing the general news, updates, photos and videos. People can explore the events, like and share the stuff. It is widely used as a business platform too (Kaplan and Haenlein, 2010). Snapchat is another social media which is used for sharing images basically. Its other uses are video sharing, calling, texting but presently it is not from the business point of view. Pinterest is one more innovative form of social media marketing. It is basically for sharing photos with a small caption. It is majorly for ecommerce purpose and worldwide connection through images. There are various other social media sites and pages which connect people such as twitter, Google+ etc (Tuten and Solomon, 2014). People post their personal incidents, life stories, events over these sites and the individuals reply to those updates. But as per Shapiro and the views mentioned in article, states that as per him these memoirs should not be take as social updates. As per the author the greetings and condolence should not be restricted to the replies given over the updates whereas people should have sense of belonging and try to maintain the sagacity of the associations. The increasing usage of social media has turned the small issues, tragedies or sorrows of some people into art as these sides propagates the issue or the story and take it as a purpose of increasing publicity rather than showing concern and condolence. Thus Shapiro does not believe the comments or likes or reactions on these sites as genuine responses and emotional connections. There are few points and arguments provided by the author that can be supported and considered as agreed points such as the responses should not be restrained to the social media pages rather people should have equal association beside these sites and must try to maintain them and should not kept theses social media sites as the only connecting point. As well as the author is also very much correct that the small sorrows converts into a social issue or art which must not take place just to have public attention. There are also few arguments of the author which cannot be supported fully such as the memoirs are not completely a social update instead it can be said that in present scenario the memoir is regarded as a social update in the scenario where the writer itself has mentioned it in the form of a social information and must be analyzed depending upon the situation and the circumstance (Baym, 2013). Conclusion The essay concludes that today is the digital age where people are more likely to connect with each other through the social media sites rather than the substantial meetings and engagements. With the increased technology and digitalization the people are more concerned in showing their responses over these sites and social pages. But while analyzing the article of Shapiro it is very well understands that every memoir should not be considered as a social update and people must maintain their emotional bonds and connections other than theses sites. 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