A Hashtag is Only the Beginning
Even in moments of fleeting silence, social media is deafening—a relentless tide of tweets and captions calling for action and demanding for real change to be made. Now more than ever, the Internet has become a catalyst for social justice amongst young people. All it takes is one viral hashtag to set off a chain reaction of reposts and retweets advocating against prejudice, hatred, and discrimination, but is that enough? In recent years, the use of hashtags on social media ha