Friday, April 13, 2018
Despite all the negatives mentioned about social media, there is much good that can from it when people learn to use it for the right reasons and take advantage of the ways it can amplify good deeds. Make-A-Wish does an incredible job of making sick children's dreams come true, and in the case of the Batkid, the help of a tremendous amount of strangers also helped to make this little's day. The organization of this event was planned on social media, and I think it is amazing that, for one, this was even possible and also that so many people were willing to make this happen without any form of reward as they just did it out of the goodness of their hearts. The money used to coordinate a child's wish is a perfect use of this money because we really ought to be making the most of their time. Beyond that, we should make a point to try and brighten everyone's day in the best way we know how. For the longest time, my mom would post statuses on Facebook every morning with inspirational quotes or just a miniature pep talk, and as little as this seems, this possibly could have been the motivation someone needed to make it through that particular day. Another way social media tries to do good is through the sharing of GoFundMe pages. Although I do not agree with them removing a portion of the money raised for themselves, I still think it is a good resource to make a fundraiser happen that would otherwise be impossible. Recently, someone from home that was a year older than me passed away in a car accident, and a few people from his graduating class set up a GoFundMe to help his family raise money for his arrangements. I saw it shared on both Facebook and Twitter multiple times and even saw where they had raised well over their goal. It is things like this that restores my faith in humanity, that not everyone is bad and some people simply want to do what is right and what is good. We should all try to implement these behaviors in our daily lives, and putting on social media for a larger audience might just make it contagious.
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