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Social media:The new anger field

<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> </xml><xml> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE </xml><xml> </xml> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> Every day, millions of tweets, Facebook updates, Snapchat videos and Instagram photos are shared all across from Celebrities, Bigwigs and people like me. In a flash news and information from one corner of the earth reaches the other end at the touch of a button. This thing, the Social media or network(s), is here to stay least for a long term until something better comes or happens.

That is the new norm. It is the best, in some quarters, have happened for such a long time since the advent of the internet in 1960s when the United States Federal Government commissioned the building of a seamless, fault-tolerant communication via computer networks and what we all know, the world wide web in the early 1989 by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee.

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