The Impact:

It’s no doubt that the impact of social media on these type of movements is real, we see it on an everyday basis. To start things off I give you the very common example of a fact: in the past coming out was a very personal experience, where if you did it you would only tell it to the closest of your family or of your friends.

The impact is on the majority of cases a good one bringing benefits to them and a larger quantity of people getting inboard with these tendencies. But on other cases such as on other times that some social media platforms deem a content inappropriate being shared or opinion being given the voices being heard are shut or in this case companies like Twitter remove the tweet or Facebook removes the post.

Another bad aspect that social media bring for LGBT movements is that because of platforms lacks moderators. Moderators are the people, that as I mentioned before, deeming the content worthy or unworthy, they are the ones that control the “end-product”, or basically the things that we see when visiting those platforms. Many sources as the Insider and TheGuardian have presented already many lacunes on the Moderator System of Facebook, for example, showing that the number of moderators is insufficient compared with the number of users of the same platform. This lack of moderators affects the number of fake news we see and the number of trash content we may watch on these platforms, this affecting many times the way we feel about some movements such as LGBT or Feminism since the lack of moderation can bring us to a wrong opinion on it.

On balance, social media bring in many movements the uniting of people that feel the same way about these. Other aspects are that through platforms such as twitter people can organize easily reunions and communities across the globe, people can denounce through it too many acts and that the wide span of the “voices” I spoke before is much bigger.