Social Media Are The Antidote To Folk Media ?????

Folk media are the one of the best channel to transfer the information. From the ancient time we can find the folk media in every culture. This is the basic and first communication channel in the world. The primitive people of those days spent their time usefully with the folk performance. They didn’t have any formal training for these performances.

• ·        Folk media – of the people, by the people, for the people
• ·        Tell their own stories with their own view
• ·        Flexible
• ·        Active audience

             Folk media specially the folk performances explore the own ideologies , problems, feelings of the folk people. For an example ‘lullaby’ – mother can put any words according her wish and she can express her worries, happiness and her status as well.

               Everyone has the opportunity to participate in the folk performances according to their culture. Audience have the opportunity to ask questions when people are performing, and they able to get the feedback.

                 
                          Flexibility is one of the best features in folk performances. These are informal media so they can change the theme according to the audience. They don’t have restrictions and schedules. So people have the chance to express themselves freely.

                  Social media are really interacting with the society very much nowadays. Everyone can allocate a space in the social media. Social media were base to many social revolutions.  For an example we can say the Egypt revolution by the social media. As folk media here also we have the opportunity to give our own ideas and able to change the theme according to the audience. Freedom of expression is the important factor in social media too. Audience are active here, everyone can comment and criticize on a post in new media.

In folk media people used ‘parai’(drum) to spread the news immediately and briefly, here in social media we have ‘twitter’ to spread news within 140 characters.

                In folk media people play many dramas and talk about their problems and say some messages to the audience. In social media people write some articles about social issues and problems, and post in blog, tumblr, wordpress and etc. Another thing through the you tube people upload many videos about their culture, problem, awareness programs and etc…

Folk media have some restrictions such as caste, religious views, some ideologies and myths.

                   In social media there are some restrictions from the government, constitutions of the social media providers/companies

                        Eg: china banned google

            In social media we can’t have the real intimacy with the people. We able to connect all the people but that never equal to the direct face to face communication with people.

But In this machinery world we can say ‘social media are the antidote to the folk media……….’