Use of Instagram to Promote Anti-Violence

Instagram is widely recognized for selfies, and pictures of meals before people eat them. Although, this is not all this new social media is good for. Popular hip-hop artist "The Game" is now proving that point with his new #SeizeFire campaign. Unfortunately, many cities in America are a part of gang violence, and just flat out violence, resulting in deaths of innocent people. This #seizefire campaign has been exploding onto the Instagram scene, with many reposts of the same picture. The picture is cartoon children holding hands in front of a christmas tree, and hash tagged with #seizefire then a city... For example #SeizefireDET or #SeizeFireLA. This just goes to show that some social networking can be used for good if used the right way, and this campaign is something that should be talked about instead of selflies and pictures of food. All in all, this campaign shows the good in social media, and more people in the world should take this sort of action, especially with the holiday season coming up.