How to manage your Social Presence in the Digital World-Azhan Rabi

What happened during the talk?

On 14 June, 2014, Mr. Azhan Rabi came to our college to have a talk on “How to manage your Social Presence in the Digital World”. The talk started on 12pm. Most of the students came on time. The talk started very soon. Before Mr. Azhan started his talk, one of our course mates, Saravarnan be the emcee to introduce him.

During the talk, Mr. Azhan shared his experiences. He not only presented using power point slides, he also used video to enhance our visual aids and our understanding. He taught us how to use wisely in social media nowadays, which social media are good for us and what social media we should use.

After Mr. Azhan ended his talk, our lecturer, Miss Sabina gave out souvenir to Mr. Azhan. Miss Sabina was then briefing us about the blog assignment and teached us how to create our own profile in Linkedin. Besides that, she asked us to selfie and let her see during tutorial class. The talk was ended about 1.30pm.

What you’ve learned from the talk

From the talk given by Mr. Azhan, I realize that many people start to use social media in their daily life, no matter what age they are. As what Mr. Azhan said, even our parents know how to use Facebook. Mr. Azhan taught his mother to use facebook. So do I. We can see what our families do every day.

In this digital world, approximately 97% have online accounts, 65% login daily.  According to this, we can see that we rely on social media in our life. However, Mr. Azhan mentioned that most of us like to chit chat using texting. Less face-to-face communication occurs in our life. We like to share our feelings, opinion through social media. We will upload our photos and tag our friends to get more “like” from others. In my opinion, we should not share too much things in social media. If we did so, we must responsible to everything that may be happen in the future. We should think wise before we comment and share anything. Besides that, as PR practitioners, we must be professional in face-to-face communication and also online communication. 

Mr. Azhan also taught us about our digital assets. Digital assets include our user name and password, our online activities such as e-transactions, date of birth, our identification card number, our bank account number and so on. This might cause invasion of privacy. People may use our private information to commit crimes. Therefore, we must use our social media carefully and think before we do any decision.

Furthermore, Mr. Azhan said that Linkedin is a very good social network for us to find our jobs. There are 18,400,000 people found their jobs by sing Facebook, 8,000,000 using twitter and 10, 200, 000 use Linkedin to find their jobs. From this data, I realize that social network can also help us in finding jobs for our future. We can find many professional people in different fields in Linkedin

From the talk given by Mr. Azhan Rabi, i learned to be wise when i am using the social network nowadays. I know i should think twice before i posted anything in my social network profile. Social media help us in many field. I can use social media to connect with other people all over the world, find my future jobs and others.