Social Media - Don't be Afraid to get engaged.
You are a part of a ‘real democracy’.
Never before in our human history
have we had the possibility to achieve so much. With today's technology and the
ability for people to share resources, knowledge and work cooperatively towards
improving the way we live we are now experiencing incredible innovation.
This will become even more evident
over the coming years with our energy resource utilization, our local, national
and global governance, as well as the way we continue to be connected to each other and
recreate the traditional channels of media and distribution. This is what a
true democratic society was meant to be. That is, to be connected to each
other, to have the ability to make change for the better, and be held to the
true value proposition that you can achieve, whether it be in business, arts
and culture or through social improvement.
It is scary; we can be criticized or
anonymous fools can easily point out the errors in our thoughts, you also can
see it in the eyes of people who built their ideology on the old power
structure. But no one should be afraid. Just learn how to adapt to the new
reality. Get involved in the discussion, whatever it may be, good people will back you. I would be interested to hear of bullying cases and thoughts and strategies to counter cyber bullying, people want to be connected but we have almost all had run ins with these assholes. Any thoughts?
Your voice can now
be heard and the more you offer, the more you can affect change and gain the
trust of those you are connected to. Learn to grow a thick skin and know that
many will support you, while others may ridicule you. For the trolls and the
cyber bullies learn to accept that many people will not like what you have to
say and often they lack the intelligence or the patience to write thoughtfully,
they may even be right but if they contradict your thoughts and can’t write how
and why and what might be a better idea, then erase them and forget them.
Accept that trolls and bullies exist, but don’t let the bastards bring you
down. Use your voice. Call the bullies out. blog about it and point the people back at them.
I have seen so many great things
come from this new interconnectedness yet the most intriguing thing for me is
just how we as a society will be able to govern ourselves and create change
with each other as it evolves as the group en masse wishes. Traditional
channels of media, wealth distribution are now being completely rewritten and
will lead to a redistribution of wealth not based on status or current power
but will instead depend on the value proposition, that is whatever you add to
the pot will be scrutinized and the group will decide its true value, the more people that review what you do the more correct the final valuation will be.
There are many cases where social media has gone awry and often it seems to correct itself, but we cannot run away from the most powerful tools, the ones that give us a voice where before all we had was a remote control to change the channel, now we write the channel. These are my thoughts.
Thoughtful ideas and even
contradictory views are welcome, with ‘thoughtful’ being the operative word.
