My Opinion of Social Media

I believe that social media can be bad or good, horrific or awesome, to me it depends at the way you look at it, and who you follow. For example, this week we had two deaths in pop-culture, Paul Walker, actor from the Fast & Furious series, and Nelson Mandela, promoter of equality and freedom. Now, an educated individual would most likely agree that Nelson Mandela was a little more important to the world seeing as his story, and what he did for South Africa will be remembered forever. BUT, would you believe there were more tweets about Paul Walker on Twitter than there were for Nelson Mandela, this is sickening to me. People care more about an actors death, than they do a revolutionary who fought for equality. My last post showed the good of social networking, so I figured it was time to touch on what I think is the bad. This bothers me to an extreme point, I think it shows that our country is going into the wrong direction, our people are becoming less educated and dependent on social medias and smart phones. Im not saying I'm not part of the problem, but I am saying I do notice the problem and want it to change. I believe that this world is headed down a fine line of too much technology, and I do not know the consequences of it. I think it is making our population less educated, and more ignorant though, stuck on pop culture instead of focusing on what's more important. I just do not know about our future, and in the next 5-10 years of my life what kind of changes will I see due to this technology dependence. Hopefully they are good changes, I hope very much that our society is headed in the right direction, and not the wrong direction.