
Social media is a form of electronic communication through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal, messages, and other content. Social media is very helpful for us especially by knowing what are happening around us, such as calamities. It also helps us to change the way people live. It creates awareness and helps people to discover various innovations that help them enhance their own lives.
FAMILY

Through social media, every family can easily communicate their relatives and loved ones from other places especially to those who were outside in our country. The use of social media is very rampant nowadays. People start tagging and posting the names and pictures of their missing loved ones. It is an online sounding board to keep everyone updated whether their families, relatives, or friends had survived or not.
SOCIAL WORKERS

One of the responsibilities and obligations of social workers is to helped those people who are in needs. Social media is very important for social workers because it is one of those people who needed their help. It can also be a tool to educate them with some informations during calamities. The best way to get information about needed assistance like medical help, and where to give and receive relief goods.
GOVERNMENT

Social has also transformed how government organizations communicate during an emergency. Government officials who wanted to maintain public safety, they could turn to social media in order to, promote evacuation protocols to help get the hundreds of thousands impacted or affected to be safety. Connect evacuated civilians with emergency relief resources, and provide up-to-date information to evacuated residents. The results may be ended up being extremely helpful in the dire times.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA IN TODAY’S WORLD AND FROM THE PAST WHERE INFORMATION IS ONLY PROVIDED BY MEDIA (TV, RADIO, & PRINT)

Social media plays a very important role in today’s life, social media are web-based online tools that enable people discover and learn new information, share ideas, interact with new people and organizations. Before and now, it has a big difference. Before, they used tv, radio and newspaper to inform about the alarming issues in our society. People before cannot easily buy tv or even radio, so they usually used newspaper. By using these kinds of old media, information cannot spread easily and fast. They will not be updated to those new informations and news. And here comes the modern world, where new technologies are formed. Nowadays, cellphone is very common to everyone, we also have stronger connections than before. In today’s generations, spreading the news is very easy, and most of us have a social media accounts that can easily connect to everyone. The power of social media has allowed our society to be much more knowlegeable of worldwide affairs and news.


