social media will never be the impetus for real social change. He compared Twitter unfavorably to the civil rights movement. The Woolworth’s lunch counter protesters had strong social ties with each other; social media, on the other hand, breeds weak ties. Meaningful change comes from strong ties, very little is achieved through weak ones.
What if we re-embraced activism as the intentional acts carried out by each generation to guide us from legacy narratives to new challenger narratives?