He completely neglects the fact that social media has provided an immense amount of information to people on a global scale that they otherwise would not be aware of, as well as, the successful revolutions that have sprouted from social media.
Gladwell addresses his main concern from the very beginning about how he believes social media has caused the common American “to have forgotten what activism is” (Gladwell 404). The author begins his article with an anecdote from 1960 about four black college students that decided to fight against the status quo of the Jim Crow “separate but equal” laws. These four black students sat in a coffee shop that was designated for white people only, and by the next day “the protest had grown to twenty-seven men and four women;” when several