Memes: Media and Information Literacy

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This meme wants people to be aware of themselves for not trusting social media news because it has a high possibility that it is a fake news which is common nowadays. Even a small information about things can not be trusted that easily because social media are making people fool of believing things easily. As social media is a tool of communication by clicking “share”, news are spreading like a virus infecting our minds of what others believing that is true. This meme encourages people to investigate first before believing.

This meme can be related to everyone when doing research for deeper information. Trying to figure things with your own might felt like your a detective by searching information piece by piece to know if the news are credible and to know more interesting information. This is funny because I can relate on this meme.

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This meme shows when there are times that on your feed people are sharing posts which they don’t know exactly the meaning, they just felt they would share it and it’s true because others share it, or they just wanted the aesthetics of the image. Sometimes even small information are making the news from different people not credible. There are times people are fooled because the news went viral. There are information that are the same with our situation, but not necessarily true in our country. Sometimes people shared news which is posted by a person and shows that the person has no credible sources. That is why we are always a victim of fake news. The meme shows exactly how social media is increasingly growing bane. Sometimes we were not aware fake news are everywhere in our feed infecting young and old minds.

This meme shows that using internet and social media can be used for using your own identity, cyber bullying, human trafficking and a lot more. By obtaining your pictures, by freely saving it, and using your identity, it can destroy person’s identity. Nowadays, many are victim of cyber crime and not all are prioritized in our country as it is continually increasing by social media engagement. This shows that as social media develops many disadvantages

Note: All of these memes are made by me, but the pictures are not from me.

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