In our group's social media debate, we were asked to debate the POSITIVE of Social Action. At first we had it extremely difficult to come up with points and be able to understand the topic fully. However, after talking to the teachers and other students we learned that Social Action is being able to take action through a means a technology in order to make a change in society or the world. Whether people are joining forces on Facebook, Twitter, even YouTube!
PROS: First of all, we found that technology has actually provided us with better tools in order to make social action happen. People of all kinds and walks are able to join together from all over the world to discuss heated topics, and they're able to join forces on topics they may want to try and make better. Social Media can be used through technology in so many different ways whether it being protest such as Egypts government, raising awareness to charities, helping raise money for charities or even just having people join together on topics they agree or disagee on. In the throwing of Egypts leader, people were able to join together on Facebook, Twitter, etc and talk about their own perspectives. People were able to form groups, and weer able to talk together able being able to take action so they could better their lives, they were able to make plans and realize what they had to do to get what they wanted. Without social media technology, these people would've started fighting without a real reason or cause or without actually thinking about it. Social Media may also raise awareness, such as this month of "Movember", through the media people are always talking about Movember, people are posting pictures of their mustaches and people are joining together to judge and rate the best mustaches. Movember seems to be all over the news and the theme of the month- and while it's entertaining and fun, people are also becoming aware of the problems with Prostate Cancer, and the importance of raising money to stop it. Social Media may also even help raise money, because today people can see signs and read commercials where it says a special number to text and they can donate to places all over the world. Having this option to donate, makes it way easier for people to be able to donate money at the convience of their fingertips. Overall we found that technology actually helped people join together without actually thoughts and perspectives in their heads.
CONS: Although we did argue to postivie. Obviously our opposing group had their points which I may not nessecarily agree in but, their points should also be heard. The negative of our topic fought back that Social Media may able cause a lot of problems that lead to violence and that instead of helping people come aware it simply brings people together just to start a fight even though there may not be a direct or clear reason.
Personally, for me, when using some of these social media outlets I find it easier to talk about topics that may cause a heated argument or even when I'm just reading some people discussing a certain topic. I beleive it enables people to think about their arguments, and be able to research their arguments without blurting out things that they may to in person. Discussions via social media outlets actually provide a place for people to talk calmly and be able to gain awareness. I find that if I have a mind set about a topic, I can easily talk about it with people and maybe even learn from someone else.
I also do not beleive peers worry about sharing information online about their opinions. I beleive my peers acutally use technology to their full advantage in able to discuss ideas and topics and are able to vent to one another about topics of discussion. Even if you look at the simple trending topic #ymproblems, all students are joining together and talking about problems that they have within York Mills. Although it may be hilarious, ultimately people are joining and talking and I truly beleive that these problems are now out in the open and there may be action taken definetely in the future.
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