ALOR GAJAH: The Generation-Y should be responsible and exercise caution when accessing and sharing information on the social media to avoid impacting negatively on the nation’s politics, economy and administration.
Puteri UMNO chief, Datuk Mas Ermieyati Samsudin said most users of the social media belonged to the Y-Generation who moved in tandem with the increasingly sophisticated and challenging technological expansion of the social media.
“Today’s Generation-Y comes across as being more fanatical in using the social media, and some of them are very open in giving their views on national, political and economical issues on the social media.
“It is best if they are more discerning and cautious when reading or receiving any information shared on the social media,” she told reporters after opening the programme, ‘What the Generation-Y says’:#unitysolidarity at Dewan Taming Sari, Universiti Teknologi Mara Campus here today.
Mas Ermieyati said the Y-Generation had a major influence and could impact on their peers and nation.
As such, she said the group must first check issues raised in the social media and not just accept them wholesale and later, share them with others.
Mas Ermieyati, who is also MP for Masjid Tanah, said institutions of higher learning in the country also played an important role in ensuring graduates, especially the Y-Generation, turned out well and could deal with the increasingly challenging current digital technology.
She said among efforts which could be implemented at institutions of higher education included organising information programmes on national current issues and activities which could foster the patriotic spirit of the Y-Generation towards the nation.
“Generally, the Generation-Y is seen as being less patriotic because they were born a long time after independence and had a different take on patriotism.
“A new approach is needed in efforts to foster and boost the patriotic spirit among them, such as that implemented by the Malacca Information Department today,” she added. – BERNAMA