The Conundrum of Social Media Saturation: Who Really Comprises the Majority?
Diana Peterson-More
Strategic Planner; Strategic Team Builder; Strategic Facilitator; Best-selling Author & Speaker
Regular Newsletter followers will know that I struggled with my second book entitled “Can’t We All Just Get Along,” Rodney King, Courageous Communication: a Return to Civility. The reason for my struggle was the result of a succession of surveys, responded to worldwide, with what I initially thought were startling, surprising, even shocking results.
It all came down to responses to two specific questions.
1) Generally, I describe my worldview as:
5) Generally, I think that people whose worldview is different from my own are:
I assumed that what appears on social media, and what captures the national press – the clear defilement in our dialogue, the charges flying against the “other side,” whatever the “other side” might be, and the utter debasement of the language that has now become accepted and acceptable in the public square – represented the majority of us. Perhaps, the results of three successive surveys demonstrate that the majority of us view those with different points of view are “simply different.”
Although the focus of the book is on how we can heal the great divide, meaning the ugliness that is out there, there is some hope in knowing that this represents less than half of us, and most of us accept that those who hold different views from how we describe ourselves and what we believe are merely that “simply different.”
In Can’t We All Just Get Along: Rodney King, Courageous Communication – A Return to Civility, I explore these surprising findings and share practical steps to bridge divides and foster meaningful, respectful dialogue. Order your copy today and join me in building a more understanding and civil world!