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Can Social Media Save Us All?
They say people are afraid of what they don’t know?
Well let’s face it, that’s indeed the stark reality. In today’s societies, minorities are still suffering because they are being misunderstood or misjudged by the majority. I guess you would think that this would all come together at some point and that eventually we would end up living in a peaceful and comprehensive world. If you ask me, we are still very far from it and that’s kind of too bad because the idea of a peaceful planet seemed pretty cool.
They say people are afraid of what they don’t know?
Good news, in today’s world, there is no need to remain afraid as anyone can access the information very easily. The major change that is happening with social media is that you are not anymore reading these informations on a website – which could be written by someone with wrong intentions – but you can now engage with people that have this information and get to understand what is the difference and why you should or shouldn’t be worried about it.
Knowledge grows when shared. That’s one of the major beliefs of social media. Sharing and engaging can help to make people change and I don’t think it is as fool as it sounds. Think about all the possibilities allowed by social media. You are no longer passive when receiving the information. You are now an active member of the information as you can comment on it and express your opinion about it. Plus I strongly believe that the huge amount of people communicating via social media is operating some sort of regulation in order to maintain the content as pertinent and useful.
Today, social media are still reserved to some sort of geek elite, it is still very materialistic. But think about it, involving people into a world where most of the content is free and when sharing is rarely translated into money, it is already making us evolve towards a less excessive and less money-centric society.
Why couldn’t we dream of a world where as more and more people communicate without boundaries, more and more prejudices are eliminated driving everyone towards a better philosophy of life. I am very well aware of how utopic all of this may sound, but as said in my previous post, this is the era of the consumer, the era of people vs organizations. It is no revolution, it is just an evolution: the opportunity that everyone expresses his own fears in order to solve them or to make them less scary.
So Can Social Media Save Us All?
