Good Morning, it a gorgeous Saturday, the last weekend in September 2020. There is an election going on in the state of Sabah on the island of Borneo. Hope it went well and we see a new state government that could provides good governance to the rakyat there. For today I would like to share my thoughts on the role of the Social media in our lives. I always love technology and decides to use it the best I could. After I retired from the government service in 1990 I tried to find a way to share my thoughts using the new found means, the Internet. After experimenting a few ways I found blogging. It a platform to write and share one's thoughts in a blog. Even the word blog is new, so in 2003 I tried using Blogger.com to share my thoughts. At that juncture of my life after retirement what else could I do except to share my thoughts and voila I found a way in blogging. At that time one had to pay a small fee to use the Blogger platform, so I join in and start blogging. To insert images and provides link we had to write a computer coding of which Blogger folks taught us to do. So slowly I learn the basic of coding, ha ha! It works. Then Blogger.com was bought over by Google and we were given free to use the platform. As we move on a new interface was introduced making it much easier to blog. Soon the number of bloggers increases and the Malaysian blogger community was born and established. We are linked and at time meet in person or in large group where cyber folks met in the real world. We made friends and life became more interesting. Soon the Blogger community increases in numbers to some 600 thousands. To cut the story short then Facebook arrived and the Blogger community dwindle and only the hard core including me stayed. I too join FB but continues to blog but over time I found FB is too stressful. It does not made me happy especially when bantering. I want to be in a Social Media platform that made me happy. I tried to leave FB and it was not easy and only after a fourth try did I succeeded in getting out of FB. Voila I won! So I continue to blog and enjoy sharing my thoughts. Well folks the Social Media is a good platform but only if it made one happy and not otherwise.
Have a nice day.
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I retired this year. I still have an FB account but rarely post there. I agree too stressful there. Nowadays I more often micro blog on Twitter threads. Though I still have a number of websites/blogs that I now hope to more than occasionally update.😇
wassalam,
S.M.Sabri
sabre23t, thanks for the visit and sharing your thoughts here. Great to know that you are retiring from working and I believe would continue to enjoy life. As I have done since my retirement 30 years ago I still continue to contribute to society and I could do that by blogging. I left FB and TWitter since it not worth wasting my time there. Blogging give me the opportunity to share my thoughts. In blogging Thinking and Writing are sort of a nutritions for the brain, thus it kept me as healthy at 81 now. Whether folks read my posting is immaterial although I know folks do read it and at time left comment and to that I always replied. Now google the owner of Blogger.com have provides Apps so as to enable us to blog from the Smartphone. The interface of blogging has changed since september this year. The new interface is made so that we blog from the Smartphone. I do that now that is why my posting now is short. I am getting used to it and enjoying blogging that way. Remember folks now no long read long posting, so the short post does got the message out as loud and clear to the present generation. I would suggest that you blog again. I believe like me you would continue to share your thoughts to the society. Have a nice day.
As for FB, I let it to become a much more personal platform, just for family and close friends.
Happy weekend ahead! ;)
Have a nice day.