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The above effects are just a few examples of the As a
influence of social networks in general, the interpretations of memes, the lines of a certain
trends have other more specific effects. It cannot movie or actor, the "modern" way of speaking
be denied that sometimes there are important or even laughing, the emoji to use and the
causes which are in vogue and therefore push sarcastic and "cool" replies to use. In some
officials and societies either to change or to take cases, others may make you wonder if all of
action towards this cause, the most famous this is even more important than your career,
examples being the tendency to allow victims to academic pursuit, time with loved ones, or
speak freely about sexual harassment and rape even your mental stability. So we see older
without taboos or fear of judgment, also there people who are constantly trying to keep up
was a tendency to share the reality of the with trends and use them to look younger
oppression that Palestinians face. Yet treating while other actual young people are referred to
these topics as trends only is an understatement as “oldies” because they have chosen to be
of their importance. But this is not our hard more interested in real life and a concrete
core, it is about the importance that individuals, purpose.
especially young people, give to the following
trends.
With technological evolution, the world is
getting faster and faster so in a single month you
can have more than 10 different trends
replacing each other. If you open the trending
topics section on Twitter, you would see that in
one day there is continual competition to be the
hottest topic. In most cases, these topics are
neither logical nor informative, one could even
say that they are rather silly and childish.
However, following the trends makes a person
more "cool ", "young" and "lit". So if a person
is busy for a few days in his studies, work… etc.
and therefore doesn’t follow trends, when they
return to social networks they will not
understand what it is; and then if they make the
mistake of asking they will be called "old",
"isolated" and "out of the world".

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