“If democracy is going to function as it should, the man-in-the-street is going to have to think better.” Robert Maynard Hutchins
Social media, a phenomena on a portal to all human knowledge, put to use exchanging pictures of puppies(or kittens) and arguing with people we don’t know …
… concerning subjects about which we know surprisingly little, considering we are using the portal to all human knowledge to carry on these inane dual monologues.
To think of social media as simply Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and similar popular sites is to limit and bias the idea of social media. If we go to my main starting point, Wikipedia; also a social media of sorts. Wikipedia defines social media as, “Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks.[1][2] “. A key term in this definition is that of being interactive. Various social media allow ideas to develop quickly through online discussions. This of course can be good and bad. I am sure you have followed threads that degenerated into juvenile name-calling.
Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F. Kennedy