The correct answer to this open question is the following.
It is correct to say that among the very influential transmitters of cultures today are the television, smartphone, internet, and social media. The positive or negative effect towards the Filipino family, politics, and governance is the following.
There is no single day that we watch the news or read the newspaper and find criticism to social media and the time people spent on their mobile phones, practically, wasting their time. And this is the case for Filipino society. Specifically in youngsters. Every day mass media generates more controversy in the way mobile phones are involving younger generations in entertainment and social media that rally do no generates something positive. It creates distraction, too many video games, too much time spent on social media sites wasting time on trivial things, when this time can be invested in education smart entertaining, and other forms to use the internet, television, or digital devices.
New technologies and social sites can be useful in school and the workplace. There are thousands of useful apps to make your job easier.
New technologies allow you to stay connected all the time with employees, co-workers, clients, suppliers, providers, legal offices, government offices, and family members. You can also manage your financial transactions, bank account operations, you can make payments, deposits, withdrawals, and check your balance account.
So television, smartphone, the internet, and social media are not good or bad per se. They are just tools. You are the one who decides to use them appropriately and meaningfully or not.
