Quote:
Originally Posted by speede5
Like it or don't social media is the way this stuff is going to get mass coverage these days, I don't know why it's such a bad thing. Awareness is great, and if you don't care for it, move on, but at least theres a chance it will have a positive effect. It's just people trying to do the best they can for a cause.
|
The issue is that awareness in & of itself is not enough. And there is such thing as too much awareness.
Let's say you've got a large crowd of people at a sporting event/concert. At some point a man starts having a heart attack, naturally the people around him come to his aid. But being that they arean't doctors they start shouting "This man is having a heart attack! We need a doctor!"
Everyone within ear shot hears this and naturally want to help as well, so they start shouting "Heart attack! We need a doctor!". The word of this man in need of a doctor keeps spreading to the point that the entire stadium is shouting "We need a doctor! We Need a doctor!"
Finally the ambulance arrives on the scene... to find 20,000+ people screaming "we need a doctor!" the medics ask "where? Who needs the doctor? What for?" but the people they encounter have no idea, so they just repeat "We need a doctor!"
Meanwhile, the heart attack victim is still in need of care, and there's a lot of awareness that he needs care, but any specifics of the situation "who needs a doctor? Where are they? What is their emergency?" is lost in the static of everyone shouting "We need a doctor!"