According to Malcom Gladwell, a well-known author in the area of social media,

social media are built around weak ties and real social change can never come

from loose networks of people that do not know each other. Do you think that

social media has the potential to bring about real social change?

According to my past two posts on Social media, it is definitely confirmed that social media had a great power in the present world. Now the question arises, whether social media has the potential to bring about the real social change? Malcolm Gladwell said that social change cannot come through these strangers who don’t even know each other. Well at some point, it is true. Nothing can be most effective as the real world, real relations do. Watching the last few years’ stats, it had been seen a millions of people have started dating online, seeking partners. Many of them who met through this social websites even got married. One of the negative effects had been to married people, as some of them started making affairs through these public websites. The above example was the best of social media bring about the social change. Also, people had been creating their friends network, work network through these social websites. The best examples are Facebook and LinkedIn. Is der any point in forgetting twitter? No way, Twitter had been the fastest network, spreading news via tweets. As you can watch the graph in my first social media’s post, since 2010 the tweet had been increased more than 50 million daily. You can also call Twitter as the revolutionary site. There had been lots of news who took just a minute to spread over many countries. This was done by tweets on twitter which also brought about many changes. For example, people of Iran would not have felt confident to demand their freedom and democracy, this was done by twitter.

In 1960, nearly 70,000 people joined for the protest for the issue in Greensboro, North Carolina. The protest started from 4 people and ended to 70000 after a month. This is really a large number in those days without the aid of social media. Now imagine this protest in today’s world with social media as a tool. I am sure it would have reached to millions and the time would have reduced from a month to a day. So, you can now predict the power of social media. People do dating, search partners, built relations, patch-up, broke up on these sites but there are some real bonds which cannot be built through social media and it needs the real approach. <3

There are many relations which start on Facebook and ends on it. You can take me as an example. Lolz. However, social media can act as the first step towards bringing social change and the real effect would be when it’s actions start performing in the real world.