The social networking sites have now provided us with the 21st century avenues for people from all the walks of life to be connected together online, to be able to interact freely and together, as well as able to share their different opinions, viewpoints, global perspectives about all the issues of this life that affect them directly or indirectly in an unrestricted environment.
The social media sites have now given the hundreds of millions of the ordinary voiceless people worldwide a meaningful voice that now reverberates everywhere as the true change agent of our day. The social media have finally succeeded in helping to break down the monopoly of the global news and information that once resided primarily in the hands of the powerful media organizations around the world. The social media have become the unofficial guarantor of the freedom of speech and association to people from all the races, nations, religions, cultures, languages, genders, sexual orientations, political ideologies and socioeconomic status in this age and time.
The social media played a major role in the Arab Spring Revolution that ended the decades of regimes of those sit-tight leaders in the Arab world and also forced the surviving Arab monarchial nations to carry out those important, overdue, much needed political reforms as well as the economic reformations. The world's remaining dictators of today are now leaving under the constant fear and the threats that are coming continuously from those social media sites. The media houses, religious bodies, corporations, institutions and government agencies around the world can no longer monopolize news and information easily today in the world that is now under the influence of the social media that will also continue to shape and to change the direction of the world.
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