Small Change: Why The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted

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Though social media has many positives, it serves to be helpful for low risk activism but may be unfavorable for high risk activism. Social media has the power to make change from how we interact and meet people to how we maintain those relationships through distance or being next to someone. The strength social media has in our society is eye opening. In the article “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted” written by Malcolm Gladwell, he believes social media is good for networking to large groups of people from all over but most relationships developed are not personal and can lack weakness. Therefore, Gladwell suggests that this is not the same as having a close friend or family member or half the …show more content…

As I see many things on Facebook and Twitter about protesting, it does open my eyes to what is happening but it does not make me have a true passion for the topic to join the protest offline. Compared to if I know the person or group that is activating. For high risk activism passion drives the protest without it, it will not have such impact or meaning. I think that Gladwell has many good points, although one of the ones that stands out most to me is “Facebook activism succeeds not by motivating people to make a real sacrifice” (TSIS,321). This is true to me because I see people making a difference for low risk activism. They are more likely to be involved in low risk because there is lack of requirements and it is minimal effort for them to feel like they did something good for others and themselves. Low risk activism is still important and social media plays a very powerful role in taking part in this to spread the word to large groups of

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