The Power of Social Media

With the recent explosion of social media throughout the world, it has become a crucial tool in multiple uprisings of people living in countries with unfair dictatorship. Facebook and twitter have already been accredited as a key part of the overthrowing of corrupt governments in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. Now within the last week the whole Kony campaign has spread in unbelievable speed throughout the country mostly due to Facebook, twitter, and Youtube. It is pretty crazy that in a span of just a few years social media networks have gained enough power to do something as important as help overthrow governments. With the impact social media has already made on the earth who knows how much more it expends in just the next couple years. I believe social media will continue to grow in power and influence as well as expanding profits for the social media companies.