Gaining popularity rather than being insightful
A big percentage of the media posts I have met recently are all talking about one side of the story, and for me, this is a sign of gaining popularity rather than being insightful. With the advent of technology, many people are now gaining knowledge through media posts, which represent people’s ideas rather than reading books, which contain broad information on specific topics; therefore, speakers on the social media platforms are taking advantage of this to build their popularity. Most of the speakers try to look for current issues affecting people lately and come up with interesting topics that show their part of the story or argument and make people believe that is the truth. After watching the video post on “Ten ways to have a better conversation,” I see one-sided part of the story as the speaker is trying to bring on board her own perspective of what should make a conversation interesting and leaving out a most important part of what could possibly break a good conversation. Also, speakers on media posts use very tactical words to catch people’s attention and make them repeat viewers of their posts. For instance, using the word, “Ten ways” seems attractive as most people do not have much time to watch lengthy videos on the media and thus seeing only ten ways, makes the audience think those are the only ways to achieve a better conversation when in real sense there are so many other ways that can make parties reach an interesting conversation. The part that caught my attention most is when the speaker says, she earns a living by talking to people and selling her ideas, this possibly means her media posts are for personal interests and gaining popularity rather than educating people.
Link to the article: https://www.ted.com/talks/celeste_headlee_10_ways_to_have_a_better_conversation#t-153691