Is it possible Facebook might inspire people as much as a radio speech? hey, Mubarak. Stealing a million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s even less cool? Stealing billions of dollars. You don’t get 80 Million Friends by blocking the internet. Last night’s 60 Minutes interview with Wael Ghonim, internet activist:
In his spare time, he created a Facebook page, posting information about the brutality of Egyptian police… The Facebook page was called “We are all Khalid Sayid.” Soon hundreds, then thousands of others began sharing photos and video of abuse and mistreatment.
Within months, the number of followers on Facebook grew to half a million, and when he and other organizers posted the dates and locations of protests, people started showing up and posting Internet videos. Many of the organizers never met in person. Their primary interaction was online.
Anyone need some more zeitgeisty relevance? Breaking news this morning, after the cut:
“a video posted on the Facebook page of Iranian opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi is billed as showing protesters marching in a Tehran street on Monday, calling for the release of political prisoners. At one point in the video, the crowd suddenly turns and starts running in the opposite direction. According to Mousavi’s Facebook page, they did so because they came under tear-gas fire.”
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. It’s status, however, will be continually updated.
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