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Saturday 20 October 2012


Social media has become a jargon for youth today. Social networking sites and social media have become synonymous for each other. The addiction is unparallel to any kind of other addiction like reading, pursuing hobbies, etc. These social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter have such a tremendous effect on everybody that every single happening needs to be updated and likes and shares on others wall ought to be for every big or small event. These people are “social network friendly” and their life revolves in and around their mobile, laptop and everything which can get access to internet.

Maximum numbers of people are glued to their gadgets for latest tweets, updates and endorsement and share a rock solid relation with social media site to the extent of forgetting other social doings at times. These are physically hale and hearty but are socially unhealthy as they traverse only in the territory of ‘social virtual world’. There are different kinds of socially unhealthy people and MP09 Digital, a Digitalmedia advertising and marketing agency, has just made a check list for all as one can be unhealthy and may not even know about it.

Social Enthusiast
-They are kind of ‘social gurus’ who claims to know A-Z of social media and don’t mind giving opinion on it every now and then. However, following are different types of social enthusiasts:
·         The Liker- Ardent lover of “like button” any picture, update is acknowledged with an instant like instead of a meaningful comment.
·         Vowel Eaters- These give English grammar a toss and completely make the language and spelling go haywire so that their tweet can be crunched in 140 characters.
·         Always on Alert- Gets the latest mobile in order to get instant alerts on share, comments, tweets. The mobile is used more for checking the updates than talking.
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Verb Haters- All actions are describes by the terminology used in social networking site for instance “I need to tweet about this” “oh click me as I need to share it” “My Timeline is flooded with friend request” so on and so forth.

Self Proclaimed
-The main objective to boast about one’s own self in every possible manner and fetch accolade for it in form of comments, tweets, etc. Following are the types;
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Influencer- Willingly gives shots to others through their content and keeps checking the number of likes and share of it.
·         Blogger- Answer all query by referring to their blogs as they perceive themselves to know everything and anything about everything.

Social Travelers
- The virtual crown of the mayor is far more important than any other credential thus, making check-in important at every entry at every place.

The Maniac
- Nothing upsets them more than their social sites going down as their virtual world falls apart and real world with real comments begins to creep in.

So, check the sickness and see if any of the above prevails in you. MP09 Digital advertising shall keep you updated and virtually healthy always.

Thursday 18 October 2012

School and colleges can be considered a sacred place, as education and knowledge is imparted here. This is a very common notion shared by most of the people all around the world. But with the time, trends and mindsets regarding education have changed as new heights are set to achieve and new inputs are embedded unfolding latent sides and effects of good education. Now education is no longer restricted to the bounded books curriculum but the canvas of good education is very huge and it’s painted with extracurricular activities and series of other personality and social building activities.


Be the education in school, colleges it’s all about holistic development. The most important attribute these days is building an optimistic individual with the confidence of doing different things and doing it differently. In the process of polishing these latent talents usually students and even the teachers discovers new avenues in them. The world is changing with lighting speed and its implication on Education and educators are far more than expected.

The responsibility of educators is enormous as they have to prepare future of any country. An educator not only polishes the skills but is also responsible for making responsible social beings for the welfare of the country and society. It may sound philosophical but only if individuals are educated and literate, they are able to distinguish between right and wrong and also know their rights and duties. Moreover, being literate is a major necessity in the present era to survive without being manipulated and deceived. Thus, again this elucidates the importance of being literate and educated.

There are three things which education provides firstly ‘Training’ to gain knowledge and develop skills and polish the existing skills in order to make individuals self sufficient and reliable. Secondly, ‘Social Purpose’ to integrate students and build in them a sense of social responsibility so they live with ethical and moral standards. Thirdly, ‘Cultural Purpose’ i.e. to make students know their own land its values, heritage and culture not only in history books but also in terms of gradual development of various code and abolishment of others.

Hence, the importance of education has never been ignored, even ages back India had schools like Takshila and Nalanda where learned men came from all over. And now there are prestigious institute for formal management degrees and many vocational institutes providing courses like Fashion Designing, Multimedia, and InteriorDesigning. Even if its degree oriented courses pertains to training, the extracurricular courses are set for social and cultural purpose.