Popular opinion tends to suggest that social media, make us more individualistic and egocentric. In my opinion, the impact of social media can be positive, depending on how people use it. During my third semester, at Champlain College, in a complementary newsactivist course, I had the chance to work with the social media tool linkr. On this global educational network, I published various academic writing assignments on the social issue of plastic pollution. Once published on linkr, my papers could be read by all users of the platform, including my teacher, the students in my class as much as…