Tag: Social media
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Social media cause awareness done right
As a counterpoint to last week’s post regarding vaguebooking and slacktivism, I wanted to take a look at another, more recent, social media cause awareness campaign, the #metoo campaign. If you’re unfamiliar with it, here’s one of the many explanations on it: If everyone who has been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote “Me Too” as…
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On vaguebooking and slacktivism
Note: This is a translated and re-worked version of a response I made to someone who was annoyed that someone else criticized the posting of a heart without anything in the way of context to one’s facebook page, supposedly to “raise awareness about breast cancer”. The person made the claim that it had been going…