While waiting for my drink at Starbucks last week I picked up the New York Times to read the headlines. Yes, this is a very normal practice for me, reading the news seems to be an addiction of mine. As you contemplate how someone at 21 could have such a fascination for news, let me tell you about the headline that I read, “Protests in Moldova explode with the help of Twitter.” I wasn’t really sure how to take that so I had to read it. (For those of you who are not sure where Moldova is, it is a small country in the former Soviet Union that is located in Southwest Russia near Ukraine.)
The article stated that 15,000 young people rallied together at the capitol building protesting the current Communist friendly government. They used Twitter, Facebook, and text messaging to bring this large number together.
Okay, so I must admit; I use Facebook and more specifically my Facebook status to update where I am, what I am doing, and how I am feeling. This being said I have never thought of using it to start a political uprising. I couldn’t imagine looking at the home page and seeing a bunch of my friends with their status reading, John Williams is hanging out with some buds at the capitol building over throwing this joke of a government or Hannah Martin is enjoying the big bon fire on the step of the capitol building. This is only if I am not asked to become a fan of, Student Rebellion 2009 on my home page side bar first. Now that is something that I would actually look at and read and not just click ignore.
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