It's about convenience that brought to us.
In this rapidly growing city, everyone somehow will be connected to one and another through internet, the conveniences that brought to us is undeniable and soon imperishable. One doesn't need to wait for one month or longer to receive a message from someone who is thousand miles away, with the convenience of social network have brought us, with a single click message can be delivered within a sec or two.
“… society is fast moving towards cashless and digital-based payment systems for retail banking … more of the business will driven by online and mobile apps.” (Hamidah Nziaddin, CIMB Bhd)
Google Doc
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| figure 1 - google doc working platform |
In social networking we enjoy the ease of accessing to resourceful data base, sharing ideas, photographs, documents and etc. Collaborate with peers in group assignment task, participation and contribution of each can be easily identified, and data can be locate or store in a common ground for group member to access and contribute also information can be retrieve anytime from anywhere.
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| Figure 2 - facebook's group platform (IAD Year 2) |
Facebook is an online social networking that most commonly known. A well developed and free-accessed platform, we can create a user profile, add other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos and receive notifications. Through facebook, lecturer and student share a common ground to post update regarding class cancellation, assignment submission, importance announcement, it is so much convenience because of the push notification can alert everyone who's involving right away after a status being post.
GOOGLE SLIDES
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| Figure 3 - google slides, experimenting how to create portfolio with google slides. |
Another amazing apps from google without the need of a series of complicated installation setup yet you can create impactful presentations ! We can edit, present, collaborate with peers wherever and whenever we want for free !
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| Figure 4 - Twitter user interface, configuring notification setting. |
Twitter, a free online social network that u can connect with friends and family even celebrity from all over the world, by simply following their twitter u can get immediate news feed from them ! Furthermore, twitter can get follower knows about our business, product, services, and etc. Moreover, we can get instant notification by setting up our phone and sync it with twitter, so we can manage anything in "tweet" !
GOOGLE FORMS
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| Figure 5 - google forms user interface. |
Google forms, create forms to collect data, information or carry out research on demography for free and ease to access ! it's a text-based and e-form that doesn't require to know your identity in order to complete a survey, if it does, it avoid the awkwardness for certain personal survey question! It indeed helped me and my group a lot when we require to find our user opinion in order to design a particular space for specify context's user ! with the four simple steps, create, share, send (e-mail), and analyze the data !
YOUTUBE
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| Figure 6 - Youtube's subscriptions lists. |
Youtube, again not to mentioned about the free-access and installation free, it's an online video streaming site that growth my 2nd learning behaviour, turn learning into more vivid instead of just text from textbook ! We are allow to subscribe to the desired channel to watch video online for free !
In conclusion, social networking an online platform that provide free services that can bringing people together within a single " tweet" / " like" or share, people with the common passion click within a sec cross the nation or world-wide exchange breadth of knowledge without boundary consent.
