Social Media, A Good Place to Promote Peace or Not?
We all know that there is power in Social Media. Power to renew styles and thoughts about a norm. Power to change one mind because of shared information. Power to influence every aspect of human lives. Social media have been a source of a lot of information that is free and accessible anytime we want. But how does social networking sites and apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Tiktok and Flashat help to promote peace in your community or in the whole wide world?
The mentioned Social Media above are always changing the lifestyle of everyone when it comes to shared communication. Millions of users are using these technologies for different reasons. Since these are open space for reviews and freedom speeches, every second posting of status, videos, photos and other types of media are disseminated and shared instantly to those who have social media access ~ thus affecting everyone who are concerned with these facts.
Social media is affecting Private enterprises and the Government’s policy decision makers based on every post they saw on social media. Every post matters to them as it is becoming the panel of freedom of speech for everyone. Social media can help spread peace to encourage healthy dialogues between private enterprises, government and the individuals in society. It can also help the government to implement policies and guidelines on which they can broadcast these messages to the public with the use of it. Social media promotes campaigns on peace where everyone can help to promote by donations, sponsorship and being a volunteer. All of these can be done by using social media.
It is good to know that social media have widened the purpose of the apps and sites not just only to entertainment and communication but for humanitarian purposes. However, social media can be also used to increase hatred and hate speeches online which are not helpful in promoting peace and can create more conflicts. Everything is possible with social media.
