Malcolm Gladwell, in his essay “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not be Tweeted” (originally written for The New Yorker), tells the tale of the Greensboro sit-ins and how they cannot be repeated in our digital age. He begins with the history of the sit-ins and how they led to a cross-state protest. He proves such things can rarely be duplicated in our society of acquaintances by using only social media. He moves on to discuss other threads, including the story of a lost phone and the social
perspective. Alison Gopnik, the author of Possible Worlds: Why Do Children Pretend, describes how the usage of counterfactual worlds, thinking and conceptual mapping is useful for people when a certain situation confronts them. Her reading makes her readers more curious on how it can help with finding any deeper meanings between other author’s readings such as Malcolm Gladwell’s reading, Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted, and Gregory Orr’s reading, Return to Hayneville in such
Throughout the past ten years, social media has increasingly become a phenomenon all over the world. In the United States alone, 81% of the population owns some sort of social media account (“Percentage of U.S. population”). With this increasing number, social media has reached an extremely large audience in which resulted in a melting pot of diverse discussions on daily topics. Due to this large audience, one must be extremely cautious about what they share online. These platforms have become a