10 min

Don't be Blind, When you Lose Your Mind‪!‬ L(o)ose Your Mind with Rutika

    • Personal Journals

Social Media Outrages are losing the appeal as they quickly turn into trends that eventually phase out. While voicing our opinions and getting together virtually to speak up against social evil can serve as a powerful tool to bring in change, we successfully turn them into short lived rants. Misinformed posts, ignorance towards facts, lack of logical reasoning and quick judgements lead to the failure of meaningful movements. Can we change this? Of course, only if we take some effort to give some meaning to these outrages by not being blind towards facts and authentic information. An amazing article on Forbes states how every such outrage has exact same pattern, posting the link to the article here...and request you all to read it https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninaangelovska/2019/04/26/the-6-cycles-of-social-media-reactions-after-major-tragic-events/amp/

Social Media Outrages are losing the appeal as they quickly turn into trends that eventually phase out. While voicing our opinions and getting together virtually to speak up against social evil can serve as a powerful tool to bring in change, we successfully turn them into short lived rants. Misinformed posts, ignorance towards facts, lack of logical reasoning and quick judgements lead to the failure of meaningful movements. Can we change this? Of course, only if we take some effort to give some meaning to these outrages by not being blind towards facts and authentic information. An amazing article on Forbes states how every such outrage has exact same pattern, posting the link to the article here...and request you all to read it https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninaangelovska/2019/04/26/the-6-cycles-of-social-media-reactions-after-major-tragic-events/amp/

10 min