There is no doubt that social media plays a crucial role in spreading awareness and providing support to various campaigns and protests. In fact, it would be right to say that social media helps to strengthen various protests and it is playing the leading role in shaping or creating the history for the up coming generations. In this blog, I would try to answer some of the questions about social media.
Q: How is social media changing the way people document history?
Social media is changing the way people document history to a great extent. Back in the days, history was documented using books or artifacts, whereas now a days, it is documented in the form of videos, posts or vlogs that are shared with other people on social media. People are able to save the context for future use. Platforms like twitter, YouTube are playing a huge role in documenting history related with different campaigns or protests that future generations can use for reference. For example: there are a number of videos on YouTube about the civil rights moment in 2020 that would educate the upcoming generations about the history of the moment.
Q: How have people used social media to win the hearts and minds of people? Provide examples.
Social media platforms have made it affordable and accessible for people to express their feelings, emotions and even showcase their talents to other people. There are a number of people who have won the hearts and minds of people by sharing their struggle stories, their artwork and their viewpoints. Social media is used as the best way for advertisements and influencing people. Some of the examples successful social media stars are: Carry Minati who is comedian and very famous in India, Virat Kohli the ex captain of Indian Cricket team. When these people post something on their social media, their fans go crazy.
Q: Give an example of how it’s been used in a positive, or negative way.
I think social media is used in both positive and negative ways. On the bright side, people use to showcase their talents, promote their businesses, provide information, etc. People can gain a lot of information and knowledge about the world by using social media. Students can use it for learning purposes as well. However, on the dark side, there are some demerits of social media as well. One of the biggest one being spread of hatred in the society. There are some people who use social media to spread fake news or fake narratives to spread hate or discrimination in the society. We need to be careful of the people who use this platform to abuse others and try to divide the society. Some people share in appropriate content which is dangerous for the other people and might give them problems. For example, when famous Punjabi singer, Sidhu MooseWala was shot dead last year, people shared his videos on Facebook and YouTube where one can see his wounds and blood, which was in appropriate especially for sensitive people.
So, these were some of the points I wanted to share about social media. If you have any questions or concerns, let me know in the comments section.
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