An Evaluation Of The East African Social Network

By Jaclyn Hurley


Communication channels have always enabled the transmission and relaying of specified messages from one location to another. Human beings have come up with a number of ways through which they can communicate. Through the process of communicating, special links are formed by these people. Local dialects have been incorporated into these languages so as to localize them. The East African Social Network has slowly grown from the local dialects into a very wide platform which can be used for bringing various groups of people together.

The early man employed a couple of ways through which they could communicate with others. The communication ways were aimed at fusing their needs with the local environment around which they lived. They started off by the use of wall writings and paintings. These facilitated the communication between different people.

Over the years, the channels of communication evolved as the smoke signals were taken over by the decoded messages on reeds. The encoding of messages ensured that there was no tampering of the messages being relayed from one point to another. In some cases, the encoded reeds were transported by special safes. On arrival, the safes were unlocked and the messages decoded.

The procedures of encoding and decoding of secretive messages was used as the foundation of developing the mobile phones. The simple applications used for encoding and decoding of messages were incorporated into the phones. The sending of messages could be easily done without having to worry about the security of information.

The simple telecommunication devices laid the foundation for an evolution. The industry built better devices over the years. The devices that replaced the initial phones were far much better in terms of performance and security improvement. Such had the ability to gain access to the internet at a relatively faster speed. They also enabled the making of video calls especially for people separated by expensive distances. Online games also became a reality.

The convergence of technology had made the lives pretty easier. The smart phones have an array of applications which can be used for multitasking. With the high internet access speeds, the phones have helped the people to keep in touch with others. There are a couple of online and virtual forums that brings different classes of people together. Through such websites, people can interact and make new friends.

People keep in touch through the various communication channels. The information is transmitted from one point to another during the process of relaying. Special links are formed by the people sharing then information over the communication channels. The communication links therefore enable various groups of people to keep in touch during such processes.

The social networks in East Africa have grown from the simple communication channels that the locals have been using for a very long time. The network has expanded the horizon of interactions. The virtual forums have broken the traditional boundaries and this has increasingly put the locals on the international map.




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