LEGAZPI CITY--Young Bicolanos pledged to commit a change for the involvement in social issues during the Albay Youth Summit yesterday at Albay Astrodome.
The one day activity was participated by four thousand youth all-over the Bicol with its neighboring provinces. It was made possible with the help of Globe Telecommunication. The opening remark was delivered by Mayor Geraldine Rosal. Vice-Governor Harold Ong Imperial gave us inspiring thoughts, that we should respect our individual differences, love ourselves to gain self-confidence, and help others to make their voices to be heard.
Mr. Jay Jaboneta was the first speaker. He is the chief storyteller and the founder of Yellow Boat project. He shared to us his struggles before he achieved his honor and prestige inside and outside of the country. He told us that there are no accidents in life. The Yellow Boat project gives hope for the kids, HOPE stands for H-harnessing your potential, O-opening your mind and your heart, P-perspiring or taking action, and E-empowering others. We, as young leaders can be a dealers of hope, like what Napoleon Bonaparte once said.
The second speaker was no other than Governor Joey Salceda. He delivered his speech in sarcastic but with emphasis on social issues not only here in Albay but to the whole nation. He was very comical but the substance or the content of his speech has a great impact to us, as his audience. He told us that we should excel more I arts, because a true progressive province can be identified by having rich in arts.
I was amazed by the next third speaker, a powerful and empowered woman, Rep. RisaHontiveros. I was stunned by her presence. She’s very pretty, tall and intelligent. Though I’m not so focused with her speech, I was really enchanted by her and fantasized to be like her someday.
Congresswoman Mitos Magsaysay was the last speaker in the morning. Even though I became bored of listening to her, I forced to be attentive because she’s very persuasive; she got the power to move her audience. Her message has a direct and immediate powerful effect. She urged that the government should allocate money for education and not for contraceptives. She admitted that she’s very vocal on different issue. She shared her insights that we should believe in ourselves and trust our instinct.
Let’s claim the fact that the social media help us to promote for social change. We live in a society that depends on information and communication to keep moving in the right direction and do our daily activities. We should not take media as negative source of impact. It depends to us on how to be a responsible user of these technologies. In my opinion, text messaging should not be banned because we couldn’t deny that texting help us to be informed ahead of time and we became dependent on it.
A company, like the Globe Telecommunication advertises their promos and offers on television, we are exposed into it, and so it affects our decision to buy and use globe simcards or broadband. Yes, it cater not our needs but their company’s need, on the other way to prove the influence of media is of government initiatives that can publish and broadcast a pure and good channel of communication, so it is ethical to City Government to sponsored for telecommunication.
We have become a society that does not necessarily think for itself or use internal value system to shape our decisions. This has become cultural norm to seek outside advice thus eliminating the need, and ultimately the ability, to think critically, based on unbiased information. Given the massive and intensive media messages being fed to us at every turn, we, students need to be taught how external messages being shape internal perspectives and thus decisions, one word at a time. Students need to know that mass media has a specific agenda and once values and ideals are shaped-it’s very difficult to undo.
It all comes down to this, it doesn’t matter how much media is exposed to us, and we must be able to decipher the messages sent by media and ask questions so we are not influenced in a negative manner.
By: Maribel Evasco
The one day activity was participated by four thousand youth all-over the Bicol with its neighboring provinces. It was made possible with the help of Globe Telecommunication. The opening remark was delivered by Mayor Geraldine Rosal. Vice-Governor Harold Ong Imperial gave us inspiring thoughts, that we should respect our individual differences, love ourselves to gain self-confidence, and help others to make their voices to be heard.
Mr. Jay Jaboneta was the first speaker. He is the chief storyteller and the founder of Yellow Boat project. He shared to us his struggles before he achieved his honor and prestige inside and outside of the country. He told us that there are no accidents in life. The Yellow Boat project gives hope for the kids, HOPE stands for H-harnessing your potential, O-opening your mind and your heart, P-perspiring or taking action, and E-empowering others. We, as young leaders can be a dealers of hope, like what Napoleon Bonaparte once said.
The second speaker was no other than Governor Joey Salceda. He delivered his speech in sarcastic but with emphasis on social issues not only here in Albay but to the whole nation. He was very comical but the substance or the content of his speech has a great impact to us, as his audience. He told us that we should excel more I arts, because a true progressive province can be identified by having rich in arts.
I was amazed by the next third speaker, a powerful and empowered woman, Rep. RisaHontiveros. I was stunned by her presence. She’s very pretty, tall and intelligent. Though I’m not so focused with her speech, I was really enchanted by her and fantasized to be like her someday.
Congresswoman Mitos Magsaysay was the last speaker in the morning. Even though I became bored of listening to her, I forced to be attentive because she’s very persuasive; she got the power to move her audience. Her message has a direct and immediate powerful effect. She urged that the government should allocate money for education and not for contraceptives. She admitted that she’s very vocal on different issue. She shared her insights that we should believe in ourselves and trust our instinct.
Let’s claim the fact that the social media help us to promote for social change. We live in a society that depends on information and communication to keep moving in the right direction and do our daily activities. We should not take media as negative source of impact. It depends to us on how to be a responsible user of these technologies. In my opinion, text messaging should not be banned because we couldn’t deny that texting help us to be informed ahead of time and we became dependent on it.
A company, like the Globe Telecommunication advertises their promos and offers on television, we are exposed into it, and so it affects our decision to buy and use globe simcards or broadband. Yes, it cater not our needs but their company’s need, on the other way to prove the influence of media is of government initiatives that can publish and broadcast a pure and good channel of communication, so it is ethical to City Government to sponsored for telecommunication.
We have become a society that does not necessarily think for itself or use internal value system to shape our decisions. This has become cultural norm to seek outside advice thus eliminating the need, and ultimately the ability, to think critically, based on unbiased information. Given the massive and intensive media messages being fed to us at every turn, we, students need to be taught how external messages being shape internal perspectives and thus decisions, one word at a time. Students need to know that mass media has a specific agenda and once values and ideals are shaped-it’s very difficult to undo.
It all comes down to this, it doesn’t matter how much media is exposed to us, and we must be able to decipher the messages sent by media and ask questions so we are not influenced in a negative manner.
By: Maribel Evasco