Montrell Jackson, 32, Brad Garafola, 45, and Matthew Gerald, 41
Picture courtesy of CNN.com
Those were the three police officers that were shot and killed in Baton Rouge on Sunday, July 17th.
19 people were hospitalized after a seventeen year old boy with an axe attacked a train in Wuerzburg, Germany this Monday.
Two more people were taken into police custody in connection with the Nice attack in France.
The Republican National Convention had a rough start when opposers of Trump shouted "Roll Call vote!" which was supposed to delay the convention and Trump's opening speakers. If these opposers won, all 2,472 delegates would have to call roll before the opening of the convention.
All of these stories should take precedence over other news, or one would think so. If so, then why is Kanye West the first trending topic on Yahoo and Chloe Grace Moretz the first trending topic on Google? (Chloe Grace Moretz is being attacked because she joined the twitter fight between West and Swift).
#IStandWithTaylor was a hashtag that Taylor Nation, Taylor's management team's twitter account, started the hashtag as a campaign to paint Taylor in an uplifting light across social media in lieu of all the backlash lash that Kanye West and the Kardashians have been posting about Taylor. Kim Kardashian posted videos on snapchat of Taylor Swift and Kanye's conversation. Taylor then posted a rebuttal that she typed up on a note and then tweeted with the caption, "That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim posts it on the Internet". 
Tweet courtesy of Taylor Swift's twitter at Twitter.com
Now that you're all caught up on the drama, you can probably see how upsetting that something as menial as this high-school-like fight has taken the social media spotlight over issues that truly matter.
This isn't bashing people who look up to stars such as Kanye and Swift, who both do amazing things outside of their careers and are activists in their own ways. No this is a warning to everyone on the worldwide web. People doubt the media all the time, but have people ever stopped and looked at their own online habits?
There's more out there on the web than Twitter and Facebook drama! You can tweet why you stand with Taylor but you should also be aware of what is going on in the real world and not just in Hollywood. As much as you can keep up in a conversation about all the dirty details of the current trending twitter fight, you should also be up to date on current events so that you can use your voice to support or help battle change. Social media can be a detremental tool or a tool to help spark change in a world where so much is needed.
