Egypt
One implication of Dennis Baron's treatment of social networking is that it can be used as more then a way to contact your friends. It can also be used in a way to change the lives of others. In his blog, he showed that the use of social networks like twitter can be used to rally people in a country to help fight against them. In Reforming Egypt in 140 characters?, Baron informed us that the people in Cairo, Egypt, by the use of twitter, sent a messages to others which resulted in the eviction of president Hosni Mubarak. He showed that it was possible to use social networking to change the lives of others.
Change
Most people apparently assumes that the use of social networking is mostly for the use of keeping in touch with others. In his writing of the story in Small Change in the New Yorker, Gladwell wrote about how people have read thing on facebook and felt motivated to make a change in the world.
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