Saturday, April 23, 2016

THE IMPACTS OF GLOBALIZATION

THE IMPACTS OF GLOBALIZATION

            Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies and governments of different nations. A process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on their environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity and on human physical well-being in societies around the world.
            Nowadays, the world is already globalized. A long time ago, people use to write a letter to communicate the other people and must to send it to the post office and it needs so much time to wait for the reply. But now because almost partly of people already have a cellphones and it makes people can easily communicate each other without write a letters anymore.
            Not only that. We have the internet, which makes everything become so much easier for people to do everything, for their job, their hobby or another activity. There are so many benefits we can get from the internet. The positives one is we got the information that we didn’t know and that we want to know about anything. The negative one is so many crime that people do with internet. So we must be careful.
As a communication student, it helps me so much to get any information, anything, from any resources. I still can communicate with my old friends without any problem and got the new friends from cyberspace simultaneously, I can easily talk to them without seeing them. It’s called social media, used by everyone, especially teenager. There’s many kind of social media that people use, such as Instagram, Line, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Askfm, etc. Because it becomes so easy, we can meet any strangers that we won’t to meet even it just on cyberspace. Luckily if we just meet the good strangers
Before this era, when I was in elementary school I don’t have a cellphones. Because it’s not my needs, even I really want it. The price is too expensive and it’s so rare too. But now, when I was in college and my little sister was in elementary school. We both have a cellphones. This is crazy. Nowadays, cellphones is everyone needs although a young teen. It’s abused by a young teen. A rich one can easily buy a cellphone that he or she want, but the poor one not as easy as the rich one to buy a cellphone even if the price is cheap.
Too lazy to went out for shopping? Don’t worry, we can shop by online. There are so many online shops, so we still can shop even we’re not in mall or market. I have so much fun with this. And I think I enjoy the online shop than shopping at mall. But besides that, some online shop have a bad trick to deceive the customers. So, be careful guys, don’t trust people easily.
People nowadays become so modern and western, especially a teenager. Everything seen so realistic and people won’t become an outdated, so they will follow every single thing that makes them look like a western people. It’s all about the trend that makes people, especially Indonesian teenagers, forget about their tradition.

Globalization can be in positive as well as negative ways. Many benefits that we get from globalization, but make sure, that globalization have the negative impacts too. Everyone have to choose carefully because it’s really important to balance between the positives and negatives.