Generation Like

Empowerment- a word you hear a lot when kids talk about social media. Does social media really empower people?

Social media has greatly evolved throughout time and has been considered as a media that can greatly empower people.  Presently, social media is used by a wide range of age groups and has created online communities that display different perspectives. Throughout the development of social media, it has been proved that social media has found the ability to empower people. To empower people means to get the ability to change other people's opinions and perspectives. It means to change someone's style or maybe even own someone's opinion and make them do what you want them to do. Some usual things that social media empowers now are; clothing style, music and movie choices, purchases, news awareness. Personally speaking, I believe social media does have the ability to empower people and even give people the sense of empowerment. We could see in daily life how it is changing the way people interact with one another, the way businesses and corporations innovate and create strategy, etc. Social media is no longer just about friends on Facebook and followers on twitter but the future of our world and breaking the bounds of different viewpoints and perspectives.