He believes that students in today's society could face the freedom summer. Most adults don't believe that teenagers live outside the realm of technology. For an adult in today's society to believe that teenagers in the age of technology would sacrifice their time to make a change is incredible. “It's happening today, today's college students volunteer in Peace Core, Teach for America and many other programs,” Watson said. There are Twitter and Facebook accounts created in hopes of changing the problems of today's society, but social media itself doesn't make much of a difference. I myself was part of multiple groups that set out to make a difference. After watching Watson's talk, I wish I could have helped directly, such as by delivering shoe boxes to Haiti instead of just packing and shipping them or traveling with the missionary team at my church to build homes in Ghana. If every teenager in today's society put aside their devices and took a more hands-on approach, many of the recurring problems could easily be solved
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