Social media continues to be a dependable community for most people. In the text, Thomas Greene says “we come from all the divisions, ranks and classes of society...to teach and to be taught in our turn.” This is an accurate representation of what social media platforms are. Social media creates a bridging social group without any effort because it includes as many as people as possible. No one is left out from the discussion because social media allows people to write their opinions and share it with the rest of the world. No one is left out and being inclusive is important. Social media can also be viewed as a place for public opinions because it is an aggregate of individual beliefs about political questions. Although there are bridging …show more content…
There can be a person in the social group, who all of a sudden disagrees with the majority of the group believes.
In the book, Twilight of the Elites, Hayes argues that the older generations trust elites such as doctors and news reporters more. Nowadays, majority people do not trust elites because they rather trust what they see on the internet instead. People do not trust elites, in this case the government anymore because, “Murray Rogers, the President of the local steel workers unions, was one of those who came out to greet the campaign bus… because he felt like no one in the government cared about the fate of millworkers” (7). He felt that the government was no longer trustworthy There was survey asking Americans how much trust they had in their major institutions and “‘behind all the questions of politics… lies the larger issues of public confidence and trust in the institutions of the nation… that trust does not exist” (10). Due to this issue, people turn to social media for guidance. Nowadays people depend on the internet more than an professional expertise. For example, instead of going to Home Depot to seek help on how to paint walls, people can type in