Why it's time to Care and Share: Social Media and more with Presenter Hope Ellen
I joined the photo and video-sharing platform Instagram around this time last year, in preparation for the incoming scenery of New Zealand and frankly with a need to justify my "grown-up gap year". Not only have I impressed myself in my own ability to consistently write pretty decent captions, I've also been taken aback by what people are sharing on the site. With the shift from the flashy, social life we so wish we all had to the more candid, real-life struggles that those at every level of following numbers are sharing. It never ceases to amaze me how on a platform consisting of reams of daily photos - every major humanitarian-crisis; political injustice; and all the faux-pas resulting from and connected to the pandemic, can actually generate a lot of conversation. Not too long ago the phrase 'virtue-signalling' came up in one of the Facebook chats with some friends of mine. A quick search to educate myself further on this and I noticed that the Guardian had pub...