Question

1. In your opinion, how is social media changing the political process in the United States? Is the change good or bad? Why?

2. On balance, do you think the explosion of social media has made our society better? In what ways? In what ways has social media made social life worse?

3. Have we given social media too much power over our lives?

Answer 1

Social media has acquired a decent place in the life of Human beings these days.With the rapid growth in the users of These platforms,The Politicians have also started focusing on the usage of these platforms to Interact with their Voters Or the General public.They have shown their attentiveness with these Platforms because through these platforms It is quite easy to maintain a Touch with the Public.

It all started in the USA,The usage of these platforms for the Political process. Through these plaforms the Candidate can have a direct attachment with the common public.Common public have started using these platforms as their medium to deliver there views about the Candidate or the Government as well among the Users of these platforms. These platforms have provided them their Freedom of Speech. Various candidate's in the US launches their campaign by announcing it on these platforms. Common people can easily raise their demand's via these platforms.

In US the youth have started raising campaigns about their demands on these platforms.They use these platforms to raise political awareness among the society as well

This whole change is certainly a mix of Good and Bad things.Because The Good thing is that they have expanded their reach with the Government and the bad thing is sometime their are various fake campaigns being spread among the Users which might create a worse situation for anyone. The awareness needs to be in a top priority while using any of these platforms because their are issue's regarding the authenticity of the content.