A social media revolution

My father recently brought to my attention how much rubbish is posted on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and even Google+. With this in mind I viewed my Facebook news feed and was ashamed to find that the social media generation was actually posting rubbish, unhelpful, boring, and quite often degrading things all over the social part of the internet.

It is such a waste. Social media is such a powerful tool, as everything we post can have an effect on a relatively large group of people. We have the power to influence not just the people we are directly connected to but also the wider network of people connected to us through friends.

If this is true, then why do we repost stupid cat videos and degrading images? Moreover, why do we continue to be mindless meme slaves subscribing to brain killing trash and subjecting others to posts that don't reflect the thoughts and passions of our generation. This repost culture its comparable to endless nyan cat ! This analogy goes further than you might expect. Bad posting is both annoying and endless.

Imagine how much better the internet would be if we posted things that were edifying, that were helpful, that actually mattered. Moreover, imagine how much better people we would be offline. We have to stop pretending that what happens online doesn't affect who we are in the real world. We have to stop filling the internet with rubbish and we have to stop being meme slaves. We have to stop this nyan cat culture.