Social Media

The socially acceptable may not always be the socially acceptable. Major social media outlets as well as popular movies are overflowing with intelligent messages about current issues,  nothing like the radio as it sings on and on about getting high and fucking girls or the Victoria's Secret lingerie adds on every family's cable stream. It poses a question, for can these two opposing social media leaders be reflecting the same society? American society is bordered by extremes high and dipping lows. It encompasses the liberal and the conservative, the poor and the rich, and the everything in between. With this great divergence comes a price, though and that is that social media cannot cater to everyone's wants. Thus, certain outlets focus on certain types of people, maybe with the thought that the more people are loyal to it, the more the mindset required to agree with it spreads. In order to become popular, this mindset has to be adopted to some extent, and peer pressure continually knows at the individual until they either give in or go to a different social media outlet which shares their own mindset. And so, it is by this theory of expansion that one might argue that society is represented by social media as a whole, and not by the major social media outlets. Much like how entertainment attempts to encompass all of society with its genres of music and movies, social media does as well, but through conveying information via alternative mediums and mind sets. Thus, the socially acceptable to one person is not to the other, deeming the term socially acceptable to be fallacious.