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NOWADAYS, what can we really rely on to get people talking?
Usually, anything of minor interest appears on everyone’s feeds and depending on the content, it may gather a few likes or shares before it is swiftly forgotten.
That’s how fast paced everything has become – it is almost impossible to garner peoples attention anymore.
You can understand why. We all have so much information at our fingertips (literally) that it takes a lot for us to actually take interest.
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Not only take interest – but to actually pass on the content to other people. To actually get people talking takes a lot more than it used to.
Well I guess to get people to actually have a one on one conversation with each other, without the medium of snapchat, is pretty hard these days anyways.
So what works? Controversy.
You have to be willing to say something that is relatively taboo or say the unspoken truth to get the needed ‘shock’ factor. You have to be controversial in your approach. But what is controversial? Or more fittingly, what isn’t controversial?
It’s 2016 and free speech is very much a thing that people are willing to throw in your face time and time again. You can barely upon your mouth (or type a tweet) without getting utterly blasted for it. That’s what controversy creates.
I have discussed the term ‘politically correct’ before – and unless you are talking about puppies and rainbows, someone somewhere will have a problem with what you are saying. I have been writing these articles for just over two years now, and there are so many things that I haven’t been able to write about. So many things that just wouldn’t be tolerated.
Don’t worry, I don’t believe that I am harbouring views that are too radical for the world to hear. They are just views that I know a lot of people wouldn’t agree with. They are very simple things – I am 17 years old, I haven’t developed any earth shattering beliefs – but even so they are apparently too earth shattering to share. Too controversial.
So I ask – is there such a thing as ‘too controversial’? Or is it the unspoken stuff that you actually want to hear. Is it possible that teenagers can actually express views on things beyond selfies and snapchat?
I’ll leave all but the last question up to you – as I hope that I have more than answered that one already.
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