Generation like

Empowerment was a word heard often in the video Generation Like and in social media at large. But how much empowerment if any does social media provide? Firstly it is necessary to analyse where this empowerment comes from. The empowerment comes from as sense of achievement tied to the number of likes you have, erday the number of people think you are right. The thing is, the empowerment happens at the expense of others. When some people say something 1000 may like/agree, for other the number could be less then 10. It empowers at the expense of others. That said, yes it can indeed provide the kind of empowerment that having a roomful of people say you are right did in the past but on a larger scale. So the answer to the above question is sometimes.