Don't forget 'real life' in social media engagements: Sree Sreenivasan
- Sree Sreenivasan is on a social media tour organised by Twitter India
- With social media people got the ability to ask media for more information
- Youth must not forget real life component while using social media
FollowYoung people engaging on social media must not forget the ‘in-real-life' component. They must understand that common sense in real life is common sense on social media, says the digital media guru Sree Sreenivasan who was appointed Chief Digital Officer of New York city recently.
“The thing is how we connect real life with technology,” he said in his first Facebook live interaction from India with Aby Tharakan, editor, Asianet News Online.
Elaborating on his new assignment as the Chief Digital Officer of New York city, he said his aim was to make the city more digitally equitable and transparent. “My job is to work with the Mayor of New York Bill De Blasio and Deputy Mayor.They are my two bosses. And my other bosses are the 8.5 million people living in New York city… My boss tweeted my job and said that he wanted to make New York the most tech-friendly and the most digitally equitable city in the world. We want it to be the most tech-friendly, transparent, digitally equitable city in the world, he tweeted"
“In India, we have lots of haves and have nots. ... Even in a great city like New York, in a country like America, there is digital divide and we want to see if there are ways in which we can make the digital infrastructure help reduce those inequalities," Sree said.
Social media can help you in so many ways, but be aware of the problems as well, said Sree who is on a social media tour in India along with Raheel Khursheed, Twitter India's head of news, politics and government. "I think about three to six minutes before posting anything. I worry about the impact... and what the 13-year twins at home (my children), will be posting," he said.
Is the mainstream media is losing trust, thanks to social media? With social media, people got the ability to direct media and ask for more information, Sree said. As people in the media we have to question ourselves that whether we are serving users. Are we giving them what they should know, he added.
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