Do you think that social media has the potential to bring about real social change?

According to Malcom Gladwell, a well-known author in the area of social media, social media are built around weak ties and real social change can never come from loose networks of people that do not know each other. Do you think that social media has the potential to bring about real social change?

Yes, it does in my opinion. I think it does because you can meet a lot of new people this way say you’re going on vacation and you want someone to hang out with / or show you around, on social media website you can meet a person that will do that and plus you can meet people that will also do activity’s with you. And we all know that social media websites can bring your family closer together sharing the information about what you’re doing or taking pictures.

Facebook... What to say about Facebook. Facebook has done some big stuff with social changes, now you don’t have to use the phone at all to contact people you can have private messages, you can also video chat with them too and share photos between both of you. Another example when hurricane Katrina wrecked everyone’s house you could make a Facebook group that would let you donate to the people that got everything taken away from them

One example is that KONY thing, 2 weeks ago if you said kony no one would know what you’re talking about but it’s just blew up all over Facebook everyone had it on their walls posting videos etc. So that is one huge change that social media has made

To sum everything up Maclom Galdwell has a great point, Social media does have the effects to bring changes to the world, But it does take lots of time so if you’re looking to make a change though social media be prepared to be spending lots of hours on it . Social media will only get bigger in the world when it comes to change I believe