Culture

Social Media Activism Makes You Feel Good, But Is It Actually Helping Anyone?

Even before the current social unrest now confronting our communities, social media was used as a nexus between friends, acquaintances, coworkers, or merely people of the same mindset working together for a common purpose.

By Gwen Farrell3 min read
shutterstock 1339059998
Shutterstock/Rawpixel.com

Never before have we been as privileged as we are now, to have entire movements at our fingertips, to mobilize and organize within minutes at a few touches of a button. Never before have we seen so many people brought together through this medium.