Social Media

Social media has created a place for people with like minded ideas or just looking for an outlet to express their opinions on a subject, whether it be political or some kind of movement, and have that message be heard. According to Zandt , “Social Networking gives us unprecedented power to share our stories with more people than we ever imagined.” (pg. 159). This is so true with Facebook, and even older social media sites such as MySpace. They give the user the ability to share a highlight real of pictures, wall posts, likes and dislikes, and status updates. It allows other users into their digital world. So when it comes to coming together and trying to mobilize to seek social change, these Facebook posts can be linked to groups, blogs, twitter feeds and informative websites to help spread a message. It allows news (good, bad and false) to travel like a digital wild fire through the internet, and gives us the ability to have a large audience to view the issue. Items and issues of interest are much easier to not only be heard of but to also spread larger then before. Before social media we only had news from television and news papers, and as well as the radio. This is how we received our media. Now we have so many sources it can get somewhat overwhelming too. Social media has allowed movements to expand and issues to be heard. Its allowed for people to come together much easier and share or express an opinion easier then ever before.