Male Privilege In Social Media

As much as social media has managed to ruin our society, it plays a positive role for the public as well. Social media allowed people to use their networks as a form of reaching out to old friends and family across the world. With America being known as the melting pot of the world, our society has several people with family on the other side of the Earth. With social media in effect, this permits people to stay in touch with long lost loved ones and keep ties tight. Not only has it sanctioned friends and family to keep in touches but has granted people to relocate birth parents and unknown family members as well. Yes, social media has failed our society greatly but there is always a rainbow somewhere after a rainy day. Social media can play a positive role by bringing people back together.

When people hear the word stereotype, they usually think of black people, Mexicans, Native Americans, women, and other races. Most people do not think there could be a stereotype against white males. People usually think that it would be the white male that would stereotype other races and not be stereotyped themselves. The truth is that white males get stereotyped just as much, if not more, as other races. White males have been categorized as hateful, major racists, skinheads, and over-privileged. In today’s society, a white male can’t criticize any other race without fear of being called a “hater” or a “racist”. One of the biggest forms of racism towards the white male is what the government calls “Affirmative Action”. Affirmative

I use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Snapchat, Tumblr, and Pinterest. Although all of the platforms listed have various purposes, they help to cure my boredom and keep me in touch with the world. On most accounts, my social media is a diary that I leave open to the world. Using social media for business and communications is a very useful and innovative resource. When handled by the right people it helps the greater good. For example, the news can now reach more people at faster rates than it could traditionally. You can talk to your relatives face to face over Skype. Social media helps people find jobs by assisting in making connections to others. It is a useful tool, but in most cases, it has fallen into the wrong hands in such a way that news is no longer true "news". It has become a race to popularity in the form of likes and retweets rather than driving interest on real

Privilege affects everyone, regardless of if they are affected positively or negatively. Being the majority of majorities in America, white males bear an automatic stamp of privilege on their foreheads, although they would care very strongly not to admit it. On the surface, privilege does not seem like such a bad thing, but when you pay attention to the differentiation of struggles between white men and everyone else in America, you can see it is a very large issue. Whether it is in the classroom, in the workforce, in real estate, or even in your own home, white privilege is affecting you. White male privilege in America is counterproductive to the growth of equality in society today because it affects the quality of living and level of opportunity for the rest of the country’s inhabitants. Within all facets of life, you can find extreme examples of white privilege.

In the article “The Case for Social Media and Hashtag Activism” Sabina Khan-Ibarra makes the statement “As an activist, I saw social media as an opportunity to spread the word about various causes at a faster rate, and to a bigger number of people, than through traditional methods.” This is the main reason I believe that social media is extremely useful for activism, in mere seconds, your message can be reached by millions upon millions of people.

The view of social media is all in how you perceive it and your perspective. Malcolm Gladwell argues in "Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted", that social media has weakened the nature of social revolutions and I have to say that I agree but disagree. Social media plays a huge part in our lives now and there is so much you can find out by a click of a button; it is a very revolutionary invention but it also has a negative impact on our lives.

“The belief that European American norms and more are universal and supreme to other cultural prescriptions and interpretation” (Day, Phyllis. J. A New History of Social Welfare). White privilege or "white skin benefit" is known for societal benefits that advantage individuals recognized as white in Western nations, past what is normally experienced by non-white individuals under the same social, political or monetary circumstances. White privilege is a quality so pervasive thus slippery in our way of life that we are still blind about oblivious in regards to its presence. Alongside patriarchy's abuse of classism, sexism, and prejudice it is a key component in the advancement and backing of numerous different qualities.

Privilege can mean different things depending on whom you ask. So, with its various associations, should we be using the word privilege in feminist discussions of WGS? After careful consideration, I would argue that, yes, it should. In fact, rather than a new word, we need further education about the feminist definition of privilege.

more quickly than minorities. Also, she says that since white people have powerful jobs it makes

Social media can be seen from completely different aspects and points of views. A major role in these different opinions plays mostly the age of the beholder, because social media made an enormous change in the last 50 years. One very important aspect in our today’s society is to get as many information as possible in a very short time period ("Impacts of social media”) Through social media and especially social networks such as twitter and Facebook, the information gets spread extremely fast. There are for example reporters who search on those networks to get information for their news and articles. (“Impacts

For example, Facebook is a site where people can post their opinion for anyone to see. The downside of this is that people are usually very biased and tend not to see any other points of an argument. This is why, as Gladwell also explains, social media is a good way to make existing social order more efficient.  However, when it comes to making new and dramatic social change, social media isn’t the best way to go if you want to make an impact. Some people, on the other hand, disagree with what Gladwell claims. Some believe that social media makes it easier to communicate with others. While this may be the case in some situations, it doesn’t always help to make change. However, there are many different ways people can make change; some of which are starting petitions, peaceful protests, or writing a letter to someone in power. By doing something like writing a letter, or having a group of people write letters, to someone in power, this could catch their attention and make them think about the importance of what you want to see changed. Or, an individual can start a petition to begin a peaceful protest on something they have a passion in.

Since we are given these incredible tools to communicate, we need to use them. An example of a time that social media was used for good was last year when the Stop Kony campaign was trending on twitter. At it’s most popular time, #StopKony was tweeted more 1200 times a minute. The Stop Kony marketing team created a video as an experiment, having no idea that they would change the

Social media has had a huge impact on the way that journalism is practiced and the way that the general public perceive news in the present day.

There are multiple tactics to change the public opinion. One of the most recent forms used by Public Relation sectors is through the Fear of Missing out. It is a new saying for a longtime fear. Social media simply amplifies the feeling because it is an instant and visual occurrence. One can view at that moment what they are missing and who is not missing it.

As technology continues to grow and the internet expands, generations continue to be glued to their phones and computers. Many people use the internet for work and school, but the majority is being used on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Twitter is constantly being used to communicate with other people around the world and occasionally read the news. I use twitter to pass time during the day and to occasionally read some news since I follow news accounts. It is affecting our everyday lives since it is a constant timeline of thoughts, news, and polls.