The Democratic Wave certainly has crashed in many shores around the world. The movements, Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring, Syrian Civil War, Spanish Revolutions, and the Umbrella Revolutions in China, all have something in common. Social Media has played a prevalent role in the organization and popularization of these protests. No longer are the days where monumental leaders such as Gandhi or Nelson Mandela are needed to bring together a group of people. Facebook, Twitter and the countless other social media platforms have that job pretty much covered up. Now whether this change is good or bad is another blog post entirely.

However these changes in communication and globalization have resulted in some interesting changes. For one thing, both Obama and Kim Jong Un have a twitter page (the latter being a fake page written in Spanish, oh well you get the point). With this much exposure and publicity anything can go viral including cats, ice buckets, and babies, so revolutions are not any different. In no other time in history were this many people privy to every whim of their fellow man. This change while it does result in many frustrations and fads, it does have the immense incalculable power of popular culture. Social media has essentially changed how we communicate. When did Twitter become a news source? I will never know nevertheless, it is. That’s the power of social media. Continue reading “The World Changing Effects of the Stock Market and Internet Trolls”

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