How has Facebook changed the world?
- Cyber bullying
- Keeping in touch of family
- Online dating
- Met friends
- Information spreading faster than ever
- breaking news being recorded by ordinary people and posted on Facebook
- Created job
- Ordinary people have their voices heard- platform to be heard
- Representation of everyone
Arab Spring 2011
- World changing events recorded by people for the first time.
- In the past what happened in December 2010 (the suicide of Mohammed Wazizi) could of been suppressed or censored from newspapers or television.
- Disenfranchised people everywhere have a say/power because of the internet
- Mohammed couldn't afford to pay the bribes to set up his fruit stall and his complaints to the town hall fell on deaf ears. He went on to set himself alight due to frustration.
- News travelled fast and people gathered at the spot that he set him self alight, protests and demonstration took place that police tried to shut down which later turned into a street war.
- The press was censored, however the two friends of Mohammed persevered and had people recording the actions and later posted the videos on Facebook
- 2 million Facebook users in tunisia, one in five of the population
- President Ben Ali underestimates Facebook see's it as entertainment and doesn't recognise its political power
- A quarter of homes had broadband 90% of Tunisia had phones
- Set up a protest warning people of which streets to take to get there to avoid police
- Cairo activists watched tunisia with awh.
- Hosni Mubarak- pivotal to the western world don't want to see him toppled lead to muslim complex
- Blogs weren't censored activists used them to communicate
- June 2010 police beat Khalid Said for exposing the wrongs of the government
- Egypt 4 million users on Facebook saw the pictures of Khalid
- Hosni Mubarak thought that because the internet had no structure and leadership it wasn't powerful
- January 25th a public holiday for the police a march was organised on Facebook
- Only 20% of people in Egypt were on Facebook so had to get word out
- Taxi drivers used to spread the word, by letting the drive listen in on a staged conversation
- Activist Asma revealed her identity a week before the march.
- 40000 Egyptians marched on the square.
- no muslim brotherhood posters put up because it was an egyptian uprising not a islamic one
- peaceful protest broken by security forces
- Mubarak and his government put out propaganda, Egyptian people unimpressed
- Kernal Gaddafi
- Most tightly controlled country Libya
- 42 years Gaddafi ruled lining his pocket with oil money
- only 5% of people had access to the internet
- Gaddafi didn't think it was an issue
- Young people got together on Facebook
- facebook activist protest with risk of being shot or imprisoned
- 17th february gathered at square
- Tafif Osman captured footage of the monument of Gadaffi's book (destroyed it)
- Uploaded the footage onto the internet
- internet shutdown across Libya next day, mobile phone network shut down
- people drove over to Eygpt to give footage to family members
