The Greater Good

Facebook... does Facebook actually create a sense of the greater good?

In my own arguments. I think it depends on what each person's perspective is on "the greater good" of all people. Bella argued that once you have a sense of community you will ultimately work for the good of that community as a whole. But what if your sense of doing good is not mine?

Facebook does create a sense of community, and there are plenty of organizations that have sites and connect with people around the world to help fight poverty, injustice, animal abuse, etc. These sites usually have a strong following and have created events that people around the world can take part in. What I have noticed is that people generally mean well, but attention spans seem to have gotten smaller in the digital world. Take for instance, the whole movement of stopping Kony. A huge movement over the internet that seemed to fizzle and burn once the event actually took place - at least in the smaller cities. There is still a fight to stop Kony, but I feel like the popularity of the events have dropped dramatically.



Perspective of "the greater good" of the community still depends on what people believe is the greater good. I have the perspective that assault weapons should be banned, but the NRA and the heavily pro-gun activists believe the opposite. I don't understand why they need them, they say they need them for protection. As a daughter of a police officer, the use of protection doesn't make any sense to me. But that's their opinion. So, who's right? Who's idea of creating a safer environment is correct?

There's too many questions for me to try to answer, since it's all going to be a matter of my own opinon. So, does Facebook create a sense of community that will work for the good of all people? That, I think, is still just a sense of perspective.