Social media has taken full control of the way we go about living our lives. The power that it withholds over us determines who our “friends” are, plans what we are doing for every moment of our day and also has consumed us with false visions of the way we perceive our world. In Malcolm Gladwell’s article, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”, Gladwell discusses the negative side of pairing activism and social media together. Social media places activists in a negative light by their ability to hide behind a screen. Thus, this negative light that social media brings, also brings upon a negative light when counterfactually thinking. We have allowed ourselves to let social media define our past, present, and future, which in result has lead us to creating possible worlds in a dimmer light. In Alison Gopnik’s article, “Possible Worlds:
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We have to live our lives to truly understand how the world around us works. We are able to make advances in our world and “its because we know about this world that we can create possible worlds” (Gopnik 181). The technological advances in this world could help create possible worlds if we used our technology the proper way. But, due to the way we have been using social media, it has only hurt our possible world creation. It has been proven that events prior to the use of social media have bettered our lives. Events that took police “in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade—and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter” (Gladwell 134). We have the power to change the world with technology, but we have neglected that power. Instead we have chosen to abuse it and put it in a negative light. The knowledge that we have and the knowledge that we could potentially gain from the technological world could in fact benefit us in the the creation of positive possible
We have to live our lives to truly understand how the world around us works. We are able to make advances in our world and “its because we know about this world that we can create possible worlds” (Gopnik 181). The technological advances in this world could help create possible worlds if we used our technology the proper way. But, due to the way we have been using social media, it has only hurt our possible world creation. It has been proven that events prior to the use of social media have bettered our lives. Events that took police “in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade—and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter” (Gladwell 134). We have the power to change the world with technology, but we have neglected that power. Instead we have chosen to abuse it and put it in a negative light. The knowledge that we have and the knowledge that we could potentially gain from the technological world could in fact benefit us in the the creation of positive possible