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hanks to the power and effectiveness of social media,
reports about events taking place at any corner of the
world reach us in just seconds. It has become much
easier for the disenfranchised to make their voices
heard and to draw world's attention to a host of issues

through various social media platforms. If used app-
ropriately, social media could prove to be an effective tool for setting
society into action and above all in the right direction.

Of course, there is no dearth of people who use social media to
spread hatred and radical ideas but this writer wishes to focus on the
positive aspects of social media, its strengths and effectiveness and as
to how it could be used to stir public conscience. It concerns people who
use social media as a means of waking people up, but who lack perse-
verance.

Observers may recall how social media came to prominence, par-
ticularly thanks to Michelle Obama, when Boko Haram, the Nigeria-

based terror organization, kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in
April 2014. The whole world rose up, politicians discussed the subject
and commentators wrote about it in their columns; people used soci-
al media day and night in an effort to have the girls returned. Some
three months have now gone by, and the escape of 54 of the young
girls from the clutches of Boko Haram has received little coverage.
The remaining girls are still in the custody of Boko Haram, which has
recently affiliated itself to the self-ascribed Islamic State (formerly
known as the Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant). But this is a story