Joey Mendez Soc 122

Joey Mendez

May 14th 2018

Social Movements

Social Media Tactic

Setting up a social media on our cause was actually really cool. We set our social media up through twitter because the platform of that app was easiest for us to post and say what we wanted. Each person in the group switched off from day to day to post something they felt was needed to heard and that was current event involving our group on race. We would even retweet popular pages that posted stuff on racism. Although we didn't get the most attention, I feel that if we continue tweeting and getting the word out there, that all the time we put in by posting will eventually pay off. If there was one thing I would improve with our social media page, it's that I would go and follow thousands of people hoping to get followers that would repost the things we had to say on our movement which would get more and more supporters of our group race. I felt that we did not execute that part properly because we only followed about 100 people at the start of creating it. It was kinda disappointing when only a couple people in our group were involved in the social media because the other people did not feel the need to communicate with the rest of us. We are supposed to be a team and the people who didn't feel the need to communicate weren't apart of the team. At that moment they were doing things for themselves instead of for the group. Overall, I think the event went very well. Of course, you are not going to get the attention you wish you had overnight. Nothing comes that easy, it all takes time which with time I feel our group could get a lot of attention in the future. With a lot of support and understanding, our group can alter many peoples opinions on the situation of race and segregation. In the future I would love to start up more social media accounts across other platforms without cause to expand our movement.