International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume VI, Issue VIII, August 2022 | ISSN 2454–6186

Globalisation and Social Media: Impacts of Facebook on the Contemporary Order

Socrates Ebo
Centre for Continuing Education, Federal University Otuoke, Nigeria

Abstract: One of the products of globalization is the invention of social media. Social media literally obliterated the barriers of space and time in human interactions and communication. Globalization made the world a global village but social media made the world a global sitting room. They changed our mode of being in the world and impacted on almost every facet of humanity’s social existence. It ushered a new world order: the instantaneous order where everyone follows everyone in real time from every corner of the earth. It took away the talking points of social discourse from the government and transferred it to the marketplace of the social space were everyone is a broadcaster and everyone could read everyone. This work highlights the dynamics of globalization on social media and the far-reaching impacts they have made on world order. The research is fundamentally philosophical. The methods of the research are analytic and expository.

I. INTRODUCTION

Globalization simply puts means making all human interactions worldwide: worldwide integration of interactions. It is about turning everything, everywhere and every event in the world into a global affair. Man, as a social animal cannot only live in his community alone but must also interact with other human societies. Since the world is a continuous entity, only the limitations of physics and nature restrict these interactions. The advances of technology in the modern and contemporary era have rolled back these limitations significantly. The invention of wind sailed ships made it possible for the known world to expand into America. The unification of social awareness between humanity in the Americas and Europe was a great feat of globalization. But then, it was just a handful of explorers making the discoveries and making the interactions. The invention of the steam ship made possible for massive movement of people from the known world to the Americas bridging effectively humanity’s gap in communication and interaction as one contiguous entity. have his society interact with other societies.