Days of a dying past, revolution of Social Media

     How important is social media? With today's growth of information through the use of the

internet it has made information easily accessible. With different applications, webpages, social

networks, and blogs has made it more easy than just a simple one on one person conversation to get

your points across to the general public. The use of using hashtags and twitter to get the word out

to the world has become profound.

     The use of "#askhermore Movement" has pushed the boundaries of allowing the public to get

involved in equality on the red carpet when being asked questions. On one occasion Keira Knightly

was asked, "How she balances being newly married with her career". She sharply replied with, "Are

you going to ask all the men that tonight?". At one event Jennifer Garner shared an anecdote that

reporters were more interested in hearing from her husband about Emily Ratajkowski breast from

his movie Gone Girl. Such actors as Reese Witherspoon has renewed interest on the movement

during one red carpet event by posting on her Instagram using the hashtag, saying "We are more

than our dresses,". After reading a blog from Tobi Gbile I was made aware of such a movement.

Without social media I would have never heard of such a movement.

     In "Clay Shirky: How social media can make history" he discusses how the use of Twitter spread

the information of China's May 2008 Earthquake spread like wildfire around the world. The citizens

of China were uploading pictures, taking videos, texting other people of the 7.9 magnitude

earthquake. The British news network The BBC caught wind of the earthquake from Twitter even

before China's Government was aware of it. With the use of such social networks like Twitter the

natural disaster was able to be known to the world before any type of agency was made aware of it.

     In conclusion, I feel that social media is important. Not only for a person's leisure when being

bored at home, work, school, or everyday life. It's important because when grim situations happen

you're able to push out information further than your own general society, state, nation, and

continent.