Tristan Linscott on Social Media and Presidential Communication
Tristan Linscott
Social Media and Presidential Communication
Claims and stances
Transcript
- 0:00 When I think about how presidents communicate with like the public today and their use of social media, I honestly am kind of torn.
- 0:09 And so this is more of like a little food for thought video.
- 0:12 But personally, I kind of debate this a lot in my head, just like whether or not I feel like it's immature or just a sign of the times, or honestly a good thing.
- 0:23 But first, on one hand, like I don't know, sometimes I struggle with presidents and like people in leadership roles in our country using the same platform that people post memes on and really funny content to like share really important information about like a crisis or like a financial statement or just some thing that really affects a lot of people.
- 0:47 But again, when I say affects a lot of people, then I start to think like, well, maybe the use of social media is good in that aspect because it's reaching a lot of people very fast, and that is something a president has never been able to do before because of the development of social media and this type of communication, and I mean it is kind of the president meeting society where they're at, like if everyone's on social media, obviously the president should probably also be on social media, but then again, like as a teenage girl who's using social media, that being the same platform my president's communicating to me on kind of can be mind boggling.
- 1:28 Um, and I also do see like a lot of the dangers of it because I mean all of us use social media enough to know like how dangerous it is because it is so easy, like impulsivity and just like really high I don't know emotional topics can be like posted online for so many people to see and really hard to erase really fast, and just the type of communication that goes on on the type these type of platforms can sometimes feel a little unprofessional to me just because like I don't know how prof I don't know when you can post this frequently and this much, it does start to be a little bit less professional, and I mean I guess it also does kind of really depend on the user, and so I've really chalked it up to like the user has to use it responsibly and in a way that portrays like confidence and intelligence and like safety and just I don't know, but I feel like moral of the story is I think it can be good and bad, like it is a great way to communicate to a lot of different people really fast and have let us be informed about who's leading us really easily, but I also think that's led to so many people being like misinformed or I don't know, just food for thought.
- 3:08 I think it can be a good or bad thing that the social media uses the president uses social media to communicate with the public, it's just something I've been kind of like thinking about and debating.