Liberating the Internet

  There are many problems facing with today's internet technology, especially social media, and that leads to the affect of having to liberate the internet. A Ted Talker named Wael Ghonim, shares his thoughts to everyone on how to liberate the internet and he points out 5 specific critical challenges facing today's social media users. First of all, he states that using social media spreads rumors everywhere that's hard to erase. Also, this impacts the people too because the people who see those rumors start believing them and that will make them bias. Second, he states that people who tend to use social media are more likely to make their own group of the people who thinks like each other similarly. For example, people only follow the people who they agree with and block or un-follow the people who disagrees. Third, he states that "online discussions quickly descend into angry mobs...It's as if we forget that the people behind screens are actually real people and not just avatars." So, he basically means that people will usually get in a sort of fight with each other over a specific topic in social media and they would only talk to the people they like. Forth, he states that when a post comes out that everyone agrees with, you will tend to believe it too. This will lead to the hardship of changing your opinion because of the fastness and speed of social media. Finally, Ghonim states ¨It´s as if we agreed that we are here to talk at each other instead of talking with each other.¨ This means that social media is made for positively socializing with people from different regions but instead, it´s going through the negative way because people are tending to argue with each other instead of supporting. These are the 5 critical challenges facing today´s social media based on what Wael Ghonim said. 

   Wael Ghonim also states different few suggestions of how to liberate the internet. One of the suggestions he states says ¨ if we want to liberate society, we first need to liberate the internet.¨ This means that the change of internet is based on the change of society. So if internet needs to liberate, the people of the society needs to liberate first or else it would't work trying to liberate the internet. The second suggestion that Ghonim states is the people in the society need to change by thinking more positively on the internet so positive information can spread around instead of having rumors or other negative stuff going around. These are the 5 challenges and suggestions that Wael Ghonim states for liberating the internet.