According to Malcom Gladwell, a well-known author in the area of social media, social media are built around weak ties and real social change can never come from loose networks of people that do not know each other. Do you think that social media has the potential to bring about real social change?

I believe that social media yes does have the potential to real change and there can be a social change in social media, reason is that now with social media there isn’t really a face to face social life anymore you need to talk to someone or get a hold of people as a young person you just would go on Facebook or some other social media site. When I walk down the street at any given time and see two people walking toward each other on their phones and then after I see them when they get closer and one of them say I was just about to Facebook you to see what way you are coming that is a real social change. I believe also that it also does have the potential for real change because when Facebook first came out and everyone started to use it there was no chat on it now there is a chat on the site of Facebook that shows another real change in social media. There is a lot of potential in real change in the social media sites especially with the technology that we have today in 2012, also the with the internet and how fast it is today. Also everywhere you look there are smart phone that often have those social media sites on them as a app so the access that one person has if they have one of those phone is a extensive amount. to conclude the post I truly think that the real changes are already happening there is a lot of employers that I know of off the top of my head that are using the social media sites to see what kind of person they are and for policing if you are wanting to become a police officer it will make or break you, meaning if you are using the sites for everything your communication skills might not be there because you might be not having face to face conversation and you need good skill in communication as a police officer. There are so much change that I have seen has happen and yes I truly believe if there is this much today years from now there will be a lot more.