Social Media and Tragedies

After reading this article I started to think about the many tragedies that have happened in the past. What would have been different if they had the social media and social networking we have now? Twitter and Facebook are both ways to reach multiple friends and family all at once. One tweet can give that reassurance that you are okay during time of distress. Over the summer, during the Colorado shooting, people in the theater were tweeting before, during, and after. This amazed me. I found myself thinking, would I have been tweeting if I was in their place? At first I said no way. But
then I realized, tweeting about the mass shooting as it happened would make people aware of the emergency situation. Also, it could would show that I was okay, I was all right. I still don't know though, if I would be able to mentally extract myself from the situation to tweet or Facebook. Would I be able to think that far ahead?





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