Power to the Online People
RDC: Our friend Sarah at the Online Graduates Program in Denver, Colorado produced an infograph on the use of online media as an ever growing tool to reach out and grab yeh... long live the internet!
Where were you when news of the tsunami hit Japan in 2011? How
about when Michael Jackson died? Probably online, according to many
experts who claim that social media has become the main media source for
hundreds of millions of people. Not just in the U.S., either; Facebook
alone has more than 900 million users spread across the globe as of
2012. Other social media giants like Twitter have facilitated revolution
against unjust leaders and warned people of impending natural disaster.
In fact, so many people regularly interact online that if the Internet
were a nation, it would exceed the Americas, Europe and the Middle East
combined in population. No wonder more than 13 million members of the
online community used Reddit and other media platforms to protest SOPA, a
proposed Internet censorship bill. Keep this graphic in mind next time
you log on, because knowledge is power — and a little knowledge goes a
long way in the Internet Age.
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