Formulate a brief argument against the effectiveness of social media in sociopolitical change.

Social media has had many effects on our culture, on in particular is sociopolitical change. Social media, as seen from experience, is often adopted by the younger generations. This exclusion leaves older generations out of the loop with this fast paced means of communication. This fast paced communication has also been integrated within our fast pace lifestyle and leaves cohorts of technologically illiterate individuals permanently out of the loop. This also brings up the fact that some individuals within our country (even more so outside of our country) do not have the means to access this information due to underprivileged environments, such as poverty. Both the technically illiterate and those underprivileged are not able to contribute to this socio-political atmosphere which exposes social media's inefficiency and leaves many people unaccounted for.

Social media, in general, has become very personal and users can select their exposure to different media sources. This poses the problem of selective exposure and being ill-informed on any particular subject. Social media consumers will only retain information consistent with their beliefs, neglecting any other viewpoints and ultimately introducing unnecessary bias in the sociopolitical atmosphere and altering sociopolitical change (not to mention people angered by others's ignorance). Social media has also opened an outlet to impulsive, emotion based posts. Before social media (based on my opinion) I could imagine the delay between the impulsive thought, and the publication of that impulsive thought, allotted time for a rational thought processes to take over and prevent the individual from publishing their emotions. This further exposes the inefficiency of social media in the sociopolitical changes as rational thought processes are neglected.