What’s Right With Social Media
There are so, so many examples of what’s wrong with social media. Where it’s falling short. What we can’t prove. The risks and obstacles.
But there’s so much right about this.
We are giving voices to people that have none.
We’re amplifying the voices of the many and the harmed to strengthen our resolve.
Companies are looking at their customers as people and ideas more than ever before. (Dell)
Walls are coming down. Things are being built.
We are forging connections with people who have changed our lives for the better, and often only through a bunch of wires.
We can collectively experience and share hope.
Brilliance is uncovered around every corner, and the most unlikely places.
We are linked, intertwined, diverse, passionate, and full of potential to change the world as we know it. Those changes may be small or enormous, but they matter just the same.
Today when someone wrinkles their noses at you about why you care so much about this, I encourage you to find something positive to say. Teach them something new. See beyond what’s in front of your nose. Share with them your experiences, as an individual or a business.
If what’s happening around us now isn’t an indication of what’s *right*, I don’t know what is.
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YAY! So exciting to read such an encouraging and instigating article about this world. I’m living in the epicenter of teh web2.0s And its easy to get discouraged by what people are doing around here to make money, and get more connections. But, as always, the best stuff is in the ripples. I hadn’t seen some of the sites you mentioned here, so thanks for expanding my world!
-TK
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I find more and more I have tbe highest quality conversations online, actually. Aside from a few close friends and family, being able to connect with people who share many of the same qualities and interests as I do makes for some fantastic connections. Great post
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Speaking of what’s right, I love your choice of verbiage with respect to the content of its link.
Quality is always more important than quantity. Well said!
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Amber, this is one of the best articulations of what’s right with social media I have ever seen. Often many of us in social media tend to treat tools and people as objects and subjects – this is a great reminder that there is something very human in these connections we make and in our collective hope for the future. Thank you.
With all the “how to” information about social media out there, it’s great to have someone speak so beautifully to the “why”–especially the bigger “why.”
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It’s posts like this that make me realize I’m still a learner on insight…
Thanks for the kind of analysis that anyone can take something from – social media advocates and otherwise.
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Awesome! Get em Amber…
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