social media influence

Communication is key to success in almost everything. The technology in our generation today has made it easy to publish every single thought we have onto social media for the world to see. It has its benefits and draw backs; for example, accessing information for educational purposes has been made so easy you can learn about it on khan academy in about seven minutes. On the contrary, the mean tweet or the secret you exposed on a group chat can be the cause of a social media war. Celebrities tend to have this problem when posting support on social media that regard international conflicts or societal conflicts. For example, our beloved Rihanna star, Zayn Malik, Kim Kardashian and many others have posted a tweet regarding the Palestinian-Israeli war, supporting Palestine…but then deleted it due to arguments and all of the hatred that has been stirred up due to that. We would usually think that celebrities are the reason we think a certain way about a situation however in some cases celebrities aren’t powerful enough to influence everyone. An example of a way celebrities have succeeded in advocating for social change deals with the most recent case, Caitlyn Jenner. Bruce Jenner an olympian gold medalist who we all thought was a macho man turned out to be very feminine to the point that he became a she. Caitlin received both hate and support but more support than hate due to celebrities and our society today. LGBTQ people and supporters have advertised about it in a positive way since the 60’s . LGBTQ is something that takes over the social media, if you hate on it you will receive hate back. Social media today can be used to create powerful movements, impact lives and to modify our society today.