The Hashtag Is Mitier Than The Sword

This article had a lot of insight on how the social media networks help and work with women and womens rights. Not only does social networking help womens rights but also different organizations and campaigns around the world. The article states that people have been using social media in a positive manner to quickly circulate information knowing how many people use social media sites. They have discovered that by posting information they want seen it is much faster and easier to post it online. Many people have twitter accounts and facebook and these two major sites have allowed many people to voice their opinions and get noticed. The Kony project was one project that was posted all over facebook and it was a campaign that was to stop children from being abused and taken advantage of for negative military purposes. This project was a simple youtube video that was posted and shared and got millions of people involved in supporting the cause. The article however, talks about a major issue with Planned Parenthood. It was said that the Susan G Komen Foundation was no longer willing to fund planned parenthood. As people began hearing this, they voiced their opinions on different sites and all together became noticed very quickly. By posting online, people began supporting planned parenthood with donations and within 24 hours approximately 400,000 dollars was donated. As the foundation was informed of this, they overturned their decision on defunding and agreed to continue funding planned parenthood. I think twitter being an up and coming social media site has changed more than facebook has. Twitter has allowed anyone to make an account including news stations and reporters. This allows true information to circulate rather than false information. People use hashtags to make something important known. Using a hashtag allows people to access all twitter users who have also discussed the same topic. This gets attention quickly and spreads even quicker. Campaigns have been using twitter to get noticed. A major use of twitter recently was for the presidential debates and such. People are voicing opinions and making it clear what they feel about each candidate. These sites work to bring people together but also to let people take a stand on issues they feel strong about and make positive changes.