Online activism can be affective in many ways but also can not be affective. A huge factor that most look at before seeing if they want to partake to make a change is whats being protested or discussed.  Being apart of an era that takes online activism not as serious as the earlier generations ; It is not affective. Theres a bunch of problems world wide that 9/10 gets brought to light over social media before any other platform. Taking that there are billions of people with online accounts that comment and see these (sometimes graphic) issues. People would say it’s easy to click on links about serious issues and keep scrolling, not really giving it the time of day to look over and spread it to others.:There are  People that are just sharing or changing their profile  pictures online to make themselves feel good, but sometimes these peopke are usually already activists in their own worlds. They are likely participants in the cause or organization and research shows that this sharing on social media doesn’t actually make a change. Continue reading “Online Activism” →