One of the big reasons why social activism works is because it is very simple to get involved and it does not take much effort. With facebook, twitter, and all the other social medias, one can get others to recognize the cause just by clicking one button. This can be done anywhere as well with the use of smartphones. People don’t have to spend the time of their day going out and participating in protests or other means of activism; they can be activists right from their living room couch! Which kind of takes the meaning out of the word ACTIVism, don’t you think? Social activism is the lazy version of activism, people are able to do their part with putting little to no effort into it.
Another reason why social activism works so well is because social media runs on fads and what is popular in the right there and now. Everyone wants to feel like they are included in the latest social media fad which is why certain movements are successful. If you make the movement exciting and find out a way to get people to want to tell others then you will be successful. Once it gets going, it’s the main talk for a few weeks and then it starts to die down.
That is one of the problems with social activism is it doesn’t really stick around. The really successful social activism movements will get a lot of popularity in a short time and then after a while it will die down and it will seem like not that many people care about it. Since social activism is like a fad, and fads don’t last then social activism is only effective to a certain extent.
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