Article questioning the use of Facebook protest method

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I didn't find this article, but MC sent it to me during class the last day before break because I had trouble finding an opposing view. In the article, Malcolm Gladwell makes a point that even though social networks and other technological advances are helping with protests and making things possible that weren't possible before it is not solving a problem. I understand that Gladwell is saying that this technology, and social networks, are not solving any problems. Poeple conducted protests before the use of technology, but a lot of times protests did not have enough protesters because people did not know that the protest was going to take place. The problem is that the protest idea was not shared to enough people to make it worth while. With Facebook many people can easily be reached, which will have the number of protesters grow. The problem isn't that people can't protest without technology because they can, it's that not that many people can be reached without technology to make a large protest.

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With some research I was able to see that Facebook has been used all over the world as a means of protesting. I had no idea that all these different countries have used Facebook in this way. I guess the only places that I knew used Facebook to protest was the USA and Egypt. The only reason I knew about Egypt was because it was reported so much, and had a vast amount of coverage with the media.

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This article shows how people use Facebook to protest. Using Facebook to protest helps them do it in a peaceful way, and helps them get their points across. It also helps them organize to protest in person.
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