Inspired by this article on Vegan.com, I have been working on becoming more active in supporting animal rights, human rights, veganism and the environment on as many sites as possible. After I read the article, I have also joined new social networks, just so I can spread my opinions wider.

In the past, I have to confess that I haven’t really felt at home on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. For instance, I think this is the third or fourth time I’ve joined MySpace, then deleted my account.

I have my favorite places on the web, where I feel I belong, where I enjoy hanging out, keeping in touch with my friends and so on. To some extent, I think I’ve become better at using my old favorites better, to get the word out.

After reading the article above, and this one, I have realized that I don’t have to “like” Facebook and Twitter or any of the other social networks, but I can still use them to get my message out.

If you are passionate about animals, veganism or any other cause, or for that matter anything else (in my case, for instance writing, books, languages, history) you can start too. You can use social networks to get your message out, whatever it is. That’s what those social networks are good for, in my opinion.

I won’t try to put the arguments in favor of this way of spreading the word, when others have done it so much better. If you’re interested, read the two articles I mention above.

Then, if you want to do what I have, start sharing URL:s to petitions, free donation sites and more. The more you share, the more people can get informed about important issues and causes.

And while you’re advocating your cause, you might find links to other interesting sites, funny images, food porn, quizzes etc. So I guess I don’t have as much against Twitter and so on, as I thought I did. Or maybe they’ve just grown on me.