There has been another mass shooting and once again it is being talked about on social media. This seems to be a recurring thing when something tragic happens. For the past couple years when there is a mass shooting the media spreads the news fast as lightning. The upside to this is that it spreads awareness and causes people to want to react. The downside is that this energy only last a few weeks or months and then most people move on to the with their lives like nothing happened. Social media has made spreading news easy, but with so much news spreading, important topics are not given the time or energy they need.
Malcolm Gladwell talks about this in his article Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted. He states that social media 'makes it easier for activists to express themselves,
and harder for that expression to have any impact'. It is known that we already have short attention spans but social media almost makes them shorter. We need to learn to not just tweet or retweet something tragic but also get off our phones and computers and make a change in our communities.
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