In my opinion, I believe that social media has the potential to make a lot of changes in the world. From the amount of people that just sit on social networks, one piece of news spreads so fast that its unbelievable. An earthquake would happen in China and people in Canada would know about it before the news could even be broadcasted in any other place thank to Twitter or Facebook. Or a song would be out and posted on Facebook before it would be out in market and would get leaked. But before I get off topic, I think it could definitely bring a real social change.
A perfect example is what recently happened on Facebook and Twitter. Kony 2012, a dangerous criminal in Africa, was exposed thanks to the help of social networks and finally a change is being made thank one man followed by thousands of people from many different countries all because he posted his short video on Facebook and exposed it to the world and everyone ended up sharing it making Joseph Kony famous and a target for the government to catch and get rid of since he causes a lot of distress in the daily lifes of many people in Africa. This definitely brought a real social change because no one has ever experienced so many people come together and help make a difference. I still remember waking up the next day and hearing about nothing but Kony 2012. So if something like this can happen, I’m sure another change could be made easily. So in conclusion, Social networks are an awesome way to help fix the world in many ways.
