Social media has the power to shape my opinions since I unintentionally get informed through there first.
With strategic posting, well-chosen images and an abundantly biased comment section, I have come to a realization that all of my opinions are property of social media.
Over the summer, protests against cops due to the mistreatments and killings of African Americans took place. Then in the month of July, millions of accounts came together and posted an image of black squares with the hashtag, #blackouttuesday to show support to the community.
The videos and headlines I saw on the news and online publications angered me. I have never felt a huge sense of unfairness before, but then I opened social media and this feeling quickly changed.
What a hypocritical way to be supportive, I thought to myself as I scrolled through social media that day. Multiple high fashion brands and celebrity accounts started to post against it, but they have never addressed this matter before. It was even worse when they decided to turn off their comment section.
Simple social media behavior changed my point of view against what I consider to be a humanitarian crisis. Every other news headline, protests and videos I saw after this day seemed fake and staged.
It was crazy to think that on social media, every single person had the same mindset. Until this day, if someone were to ask me about my perspective and how I felt, I still wouldn’t know how to put into words what I think.
