Caroline,
I think you bring
up some really interesting points about how social media and technology have
affected our public spheres. Your analogy of the adults shouting over each
other, attempting to share ideas was very insightful and raised an excellent
question of who should be assembling all of this information. With the vastness
of our internet, it's no surprise that our surplus of information has become
both helpful and harmful to our society. With its widened availability,
social media allows a platform for anyone and everyone to be able to voice
their opinions on any given topic. The disorganization that this public sphere
allows us can lead to misinformation and misunderstanding which ultimately
makes our communication as a society less effective. Without a gatekeeper to
sift through the endless messaging, no communication can really take place.
Instead, it becomes a group of people talking over each other, without hearing
other ideas, or actually advancing a discussion. Moreover, while the internet
and social media play an important role in sharing information and opinion; do
these benefits outweigh the toxicity it has injected into our society?
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