Social media

Social media

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I thought at the beginning that social media was beneficial, but now that I read this article my mind changed a little bit. Social media can be beneficial for example, it can help to spread news or to let people know about a campaign more faster. But not in this case. As this article mentions, “If you “like” something, does that mean you care about it?” (1). People now days see a lot of pictures in social media and they go and “like” the post, but after that, they keep scrolling and may be they will forget that post after an hour. People act like they really care about a problem because they like and comment on that post, but they do not do something outside of social media, so they are not really helpful. Moreover in this article argues, “I saw this thing, it spoke to me for at least one second, and here is my mark to prove it”(1). People every day go through their social media and they give likes to a lot of post. I can be so sure that if you ask those people to what they give likes, they probably would not remember. It can be good, but in my opinion it can be more harmful.

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In my personal opinion, social networks are beneficiary for modern activists. Currently, many people use social networks where they can share and receive news from around the world. This is done through the hashtag activism. For example, in the article “Hashtag Activism, and Its Limits” by David Carr says “hashtags come and go, and the so-called weak links of digital movements are not compatible with the commitment of the real world”. But not only are they better than nothing, they probably make the world, the one that is beyond the keyboard, a better place. It’s so you know what happens in the real world. Carr states that “Without doubt, some people are assuming the causes that arise from the fire hose of the Web, but others probably do nothing more than polish their digital avatars.” Also, social networks serve to help people for example by making donations since there are many programs on social networks that support this or to prevent us from something that may happen in the future.