Actively Involved Online

The article “small change” basically discusses how people perceive social media sites to help rally with political injustices. Basically the conclusion of the article was that tweeting and liking things on facebook really isn’t a huge factor in moving people to protest, long before social media people got together and rallied against different issues. If people feel truly oppressed or against something they will (and should) protest against it. It seems that this article is saying that just posting things online isn’t really helping too much. I think that it stops motivating people for example someone could see the facebook page for PETA and like their ideas against animal cruelty so they hit “like” but that’s not really doing much of anything, they aren’t out volunteering or being actively involved, but they think by doing that they have helped out. The next site we looked at was a blog called the egyptianchronicles and it is written by a woman who has strong feelings about the way her country is run. She constantly updates the blogs with information on where the elections will be held and stories of people who have been grievously affected by the tainted justice system. I think that this blog is different than just expressing dislike for one thing; she is actively informing her readers on important issues that they may not know about otherwise.