Dr Flavius Akerele III's The E Team Education blog

At some point, we have to realize that we are no longer communicating, all we are doing is data dumping. Everyone thinks they are right and everyone else is wrong. We are divided into tribes that hate each other for no other reason than they believe in something slightly different us. We spend hours trolling each other on social media to the point that social media is no longer social. How do you expect to find common ground if you cannot talk about simple stuff? How do you solve problems when you cannot define the problem? At some point, we will need to work together to solve things; at some point, we have to remember we are all under the same flag, constitution, and it supposed to be equal under the law. Reject the labels, rejected the memes, and for Pete’s sake stop deflecting bad things to innocent people! Dr Flavius A B Akerele III The ETeam

“Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration” Social: “ living and breeding in more or less organized communities especially for the purposes of cooperation and mutual benefit ” The purpose of social media was help us get more connected, to share, collaborate, etc.; especially with people who lived far away. There is nothing social about the way we see it being used today: ·          Cyber bullying ·          Hate Speech ·          Shaming These are just some of the daily things that happen on social media, and it seems like we are at the point where this kind of negativity is overtaking the positive aspect of what it was created for. What is interesting is that people feel safe behind their computer screen, they say things to people vir...