Sit With Us: How Social Media Empowers Us?

For most kids lunch is the best time of the day because, they are enjoying time with their friends. But the situation is different from others because they do not have a group of friends to socialize with. After struggling to find people to sit with at lunch, Natalie Hampton, who is sixteen years old from Sherman Oaks, California designed an app called Sit With Us. Elyse Wanshel states that,"Sit With Us helps students who have a difficulty finding a place to sit that is welcoming in their school lunchroom." The reason behind why Natalie made the app was because when she was in seventh grade, she ate lunch alone which gave the kids a reason to insult her. Natalie moved schools, and whenever she saw a kid sitting alone she would invite them to
If you are scrolling through Instagram and see a picture of Rihanna. You want to do your makeup like her, dress like her, also to be fit like her, so then you will change what you do to be like her. Empower means to give somebody the authority to do something. Additionally, there is a website called "How social media empowers us.weebly.com" and it explains how the internet has developed us as humans and change that way you think. The website says, "It changes others opinions. It influences us in the bigger things and the smaller ones." This means that when you are on your favorite app and you read an article about something you do not agree with it makes you think deeper on the topic. The media have empowered us to make a change in all sorts of stuff like how we dress, what movies we watch, and even the type of music we listen to. Another way it has empowered us to change is through hashtags. Hashtags start out little and all the sudden it led to a social change. Jill Ponl says, "Popular hashtags you many know that inspired a desire of change are #BringBackOurGirls spurred a public outcry in the response to Boko Haram kidnapping in Nigeria; #BlackLivesMatter was another response to police brutality in the U.S."All these hashtags started out on the internet, and turned out into a group of people protesting. The web media help make the small issues that are important to people known to everybody. As a matter of fact, in my history class we were watching a movie called the 13th and it talks about racial inequality in the United States. Jelani Cobb says in the movie that it is because of social media that shows citizens' images about things that police did to colored people back then, and it shocks people to pay attention to what is going on and what had happened. Now that people are aware about all this stuff that happened back then and that may still be happening now it makes citizens want to