How Social Media Helps Student Life
How Social Media helps Students
Social media are platforms where individuals from all cultures around the world connect and share parts of their experiences. In the recent years, social media platforms have gained a significant momentum. The pandemic reshaped the world as people relied on digital sources of information. Brands and businesses picked up on the trend fast enough. Nowadays, social media is where the action takes place. That statement holds especially true for students who are known for carrying their devices around freely as they go about their busy active mobile lifestyles.
The Gateway to e-Learning
Nowadays, learning extends outside and beyond the walls of a classroom. Learning online, from anywhere (home, a coffee shop, etc.) is how the trend goes. As a matter of fact, most reputable e-learning websites lead to social media platforms. Developers, UI/UX experts unite to create and design an extension of the experience of learning: regardless of their discipline, teachers seize social media as an opportunity to share their knowledge outside classic classrooms. In that regards, platforms like YouTube and Vimeo offer cutting-edge educational content readily accessible to anyone motivated to learn. Going to school or heading to the university campus has become a thing of the past, in favour of a more flexible, sustainable and modern way of acquiring certifications.
Forward with Networking
Students are social by nature. In the process of learning on-the-go, it makes sense to stay connected at all times via social media platforms available at reach via mobile apps. This openness makes it natural to start building relationships with peers, friends, connecting with friends of friends, and staying updated, well-informed. None of the latter would have been possible if it weren’t for the easy access to platforms such as LinkedIn and Facebook, to name a few. Organizations of all types transfer their identity onto social media platforms in order to stay connected with their digital “classrooms”. The results are extremely positive as teachers are connected to motivated students, and students are themselves connected between each other, as one united collective.
e-Learning anywhere, anytime
Students love to learn and their passion often extends outward to other cultures. As such, they like to travel a lot. Sometimes, they go far from home and move around freely where their interests drive them. However, that does not mean necessarily that they interrupt their studies. Thanks to social media, it has never been more convenient to stay connected, included, informed and active. This global exposure goes both ways: for sure, the students explore, discover and grasp so much knowledge. Also, they give back. They share their stories, clips of their lives, parts of their success, with the world, students and employers included.
All the way up to Employment
One of the major challenges most students face is securing a job after graduation. This is known as the Academia Gap. Fortunately, with the rise of popularity of social media, students have the chance to participate in the same arena as experts. Students of all walks of life can actively pursue their dreams of finding the job they desire without any help, by tapping a few buttons. Naturally, we’ve seen recently a decrease in the reliance on employment services. Students are actually “out there”in the digital sphere, “present”, just by having a profile. A short description and drop-down of experience and certificates is pretty much all it takes to apply for jobs. Students are creative and this makes them more open to being the part-timers, freelancers, etc. Their contribution to society does not go unnoticed. Furthermore, thanks to social media, they can share their achievements, tips and hints with other open-minded students.
Fundraising
Fundraising can be a life-changing part of a student’s life as they move up the academic ladder. With a certificate in hand, some seek employment right off the bat while others have a longer path ahead. In light of the growing popularity of social media, long-timers have two plans at hand: fundraising, and getting-by. Students can conveniently represent their success stories, and reach the hearts of altruistic individuals who themselves seek ambitious, deserving rookies. Meanwhile, the other plan is about raising funds by advertising their work on social media: crafts, singing, podcasts, crochet, eBooks, videos, anything goes! In exchange, they gain immense exposure and reach their goals like pros.
Student for life
Once a student, always a student. Staying open-minded to the idea of learning through life is a healthy approach to stay updated and connected with both ends of the spectrum: the experienced and the inexperienced. The experienced get to share their knowledge while the inexperienced acquires it with less challenges than ever before, in the hopes of becoming experienced. Social media also helps everyone stay informed as to important events that would otherwise interrupt a class. Everything is at reach and for a student, the more the resources, the better.