When is a hashtag
considered slacktivism or activism? Where is the line? Until what point it is
enough sitting on the couch and sharing the #?
I think it depends on 2 factors:
The purpose
of the hashtag
The person
involved
Most of the hashtag that I know have as a purpose to share an
ideal, to make people think and get knowledge about a topic or to show an
opinion about it. If we think about the #prayforparis hashtag what could we do more
than just sharing it? The purpose was to make people think about those lives
that we lost and that we are losing every day because of this war. The hashtag was made to acknowledge people. Do
we have to consider it a SLACKTIVISM? I don’t think so... But how can we not consider those people that share the hashtag just
because it is cool? This is
a risk that everyone that creates an hashtag has to consider. They have to
consider this people:
Another hashtag that doesn’t ask you to be active is
#GIRLLOVE, the purpose of this movement is to stop girl on girl hate and to
show how much we actually admire each other.
The most active that you can be is to tweet or write a post on a girl
that you admire. So, again, is it SLACKTIVISM? And again it depends on the person who posts: on one side it can be just to join this movement and in the other it can be someone that does it for popularity and 10 min
after they posted can turn around and insult another girl...
Yea, something like this....
Than we have another category of hashtags: the ones that, if
you want to, you can actually join actively. Examples are #LoveWins and
#BlackLivesMetter. I think this one can be considered totally ACTIVISM because
people went down on the streets and protested and in some cases they risked
their lives. But once again are we totally forgetting and not considering those
who just sit on the couch and share the hashtag? Are they still ACTIVE because
they share an ideal or they are examples of SLACKTIVISM?
OR
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