Wael Ghonim : Let's design social media that drives real change

Let's design social media that drives real change
Wael Ghonim • TEDGlobal>Geneva • December 2015
Summary 

The story was told about six years ago. The speaker has already said that the Arab Spring revealed social media’s greatest potential, but it also exposed its greatest shortcomings. 

A polarization is primarily driven by our human behavior, however, social media shapes this behavior and magnifies its impact. 

Rumor is spreading among more people quickly, people can easily stop to mute and block a lot, they must forget that people behind the screen. 

It becomes really hard to change our opinions even if new evidence arises. In our social media, could people truly discuss and talk with each other? Does it lead to solving something? 

The speaker, in fact, stood on the TED stage in 2011, and said, “if you want to liberate society, all you need is the Internet.”

In 2016, the speaker in this TED told us if we want to liberate society, we first need to liberate the Internet. 

In 2021, we now must use the Internet liberally too much without having civility and believe that the polarization in the world must be solved by using the Internet. 

The speaker's TED stage in 2011