Today, Inspired Leader and Advocate Mercy Kainobwisho, the Director Intellectual Property, Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB), wrote a piece titled, “Never underestimate the power of social media.” In the Facebook post, she brought out the following key observations:
- Social media has increasingly become the main channel of communication, decision making , mobilization, rumors, real and fake news, marketing and more.
- Social media also enables people to follow mentors and spiritual /counseling platforms.
- Social media has also become a database [for] searching people’s details and determining their personality.
- It is also used to determine potential employees, employers, husbands, wives and business partners and has a lot of power and influence.
- Social media will get you hired or fired.
- Social media content can be used to generate evidence against you.
- Social media will also lead to cancellation of unfair court or administrative decisions.
- Social media also poses a security risk. She concluded saying:
How we use it shapes our actions and the actions of people towards us and society.
As someone who tries to make the best use of a number of social media platforms, I hereby add to Mercy’s thought the following:
- Use social media to positively change the world.
- Maximize social media to inspire multitudes.
- Utilize social media to market transformationtransformational ideas, services and products.
- Harness social media to connect, network and partner with change-minded agents.
- Reactivate your social media account to be a man / woman on a developmental mission.
- Clean up your social media platforms to reflect civility, humility and integrity.
- Re-engineer your social media pages to be a crucible for life-changing information.
- Turn your social media space into an exemplary life platform, an authentic love centre, and a relational leadership fountain.
I believe we can inspire and empower the world through the 21st century gift of social media. Thanks Mercy ‘Kaines’ for bringing this issue to our attention.
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