Social Group and Their Media

From what I have known, social group is a communication between two or more people who interacts with each other.  Different types of social group have different motives, roles and status. For instance, a gang is group that assembles in their own area, such as streets and neighborhood. They usually consist of rebellious teenagers and young adults who likes to hangs out. Their motives is to stand against authority and emits bad influence among other peers. For this week task, I have classify four social groups based on their age, generation and preferences of media forms.

The first two of the group consist of younger generations which I split them into two. The main and foremost group is young adult. These days, this type of group have more knowledge and experience with current technology than other groups. They try to keep themselves updated with new gadgets so they won’t feel left out by their other peers. With those technologies, they want to connect with their friends as much as possible since they are still in their rebellious age and have a feelings that their friends understand them more than their parents. They like to use social network such as Facebook and Twitter to keep updating with their peers circle news. Nowadays, instead of text messaging, they like to use phone applications like WhatsApp, LINE and Viber since they offer free messages as long as you have internet connection to send and receives messages. Although they seems to be friendly an talkative when online, but in real world they hardly even glance or talk face to face with their friends. Even if they gather around a table during break, each one of them will take out their cell phone or portable games or tablets and have online chat.

 The second group is young children. It’s not surprising if a toddler is using a smart phone  or having a PS3 since parent these days is too preoccupied with their works and strictly disallow their children to go outside to play because the fear of having their child getting kidnap. I happen to have a cousin who is ten years old and she is very obsess of wanting to have a smart phones. She also like to update her statuses in Facebook and Twitter very frequently every day. I keep asking myself why she doing those kind of things at very early age since she is ten and should not have a mid-life crisis. I still clearly remember that I never bother wanting those things when I was at her age, I only want to play with my friends at the playground. But then again, I keep reminding myself that the past me and her is different now.  The world is moving forward and it’s kinda shame not equip yourselves with new things.

The third group consist of elderly people. Although I find that this group seems to equip themselves with hi-tech gadgets, but the truth is that they never explore the whole use of the gadget except for the basic one. Example like iPhone, from what I have observe is that they only use to make a phone calls, text messaging and capture pictures. Furthermore, when I ask them if they have updated their iOS, they will get confused of what I’m trying to say. But I don’t blame them since they prefer to everything simple. Most of them have account in social network like Facebook but they rarely use it. The reason that they create account on Facebook is that they wanted to reconnect with their lost friends especially their school classmates. Facebook is easy to use, user friendly and does not have complicated design. With a few directional, they easily will get the basic idea.

The fourth and last group is the creative people. They tend to sit in front of their laptop most of the time but that’s the truth. They need to make a research and preparation of what they want to accomplish and they have to visit various sites depends on what they do for inspiration. Youtube have been their main contributor since they always browse tutorial there. They also use Facebook or deviantART to exhibit their artworks online.