At the Black Lives Matter symposium, I watched and listened to Teresa Zackodnik talk and discuss how social media plays a large part in getting the word out into the public about the problems that go on within the black community. One of the things I remember Teresa saying was “take the hashtag outside”, as if we applied the things that we post on Twitter or other social media accounts and applied it to the real world that we could change the world. Although I couldn’t hear all of what she was saying, I thought she brought up some good graphics to help with her presentation, like the maps of where social media played a big part, and how she compared the newspapers from previous years to hashtags that are used nowadays. It was difficult to hear what she was saying most of the time, but the main points that she made were that social media has some effects on how people see and what they do when it comes to serious things such as protests, and how a lot of things get started on social media. A key component that I got from this symposium is that what we post on social media could change how things are looked at in the real world, whether its for the best or for the worse, taking a stand could start with a hashtag.