I have also done an essay on how Facebook is and has changed the world

Social networking has become one of the most popular means of communication in recent years. Since 2005 social networking sites have taken over several other communication methods, as people are able to access these sites to speak to their friends, which is what most people use the sites for. However, there are lots of countries that have started to use these sites to communicate with the rest of the world, and make people aware of what is going on within the country. People within these countries are signing on to facebook accounts to let one another know what they think about the corruption within the country, and how they feel they can take action against this, and then when the protesters take it to the streets they record all of the scenes and update them on to a YouTube account, so that they can stream them world wide. This is known as the Arab Spring. An example of a circumstance like this is within Libya, when there were families praying after there were 1000 Libyans gunned down in cold blood by gadafis men in 1996, the Libyan people never forgot this and have a day in remembrance of people that had lost their lives. There was a family who’s father had died in the massacre, and they felt very strongly about this day and had a large hatetrid for Gaddafi. However, the next day the family came home to find out the Gadafi had arrested the families lawyer. This caused lots of upsets as this lawyer was not only the families lawyer but the majority of the cities, so there were hundreds of people starting to take to the streets to protest against this, and as hours went by they got closer to the headquarters where the lawyer was being held. When the protesters gathered outside, they realised that there wasn’t just hundreds anymore, there were thousands of people supporting them, they gathered around the gates, and one of gadafis men came out to warn all the protesters that if they didn’t return to their homes they would all get shot, which caused an even bigger uproar and people began to attack the headquarters from every angle. Later that day they finally broke through the gates and had burnt the building down to the ground. However, whilst all of this was happening a large amount of the protesters were not only fighting, but they were also streaming the scenes straight to the web on their mobile phones. It was after a small protest in Tunisia where the Tunisians started to fight back against their government, and broadcasting in on social networking sites to try and get the attention of other countries. After this there started to become a trend, and you start seeing lots of other countries around them taking the same route, so in a way they were all helping one another, as everyone in Libya would send videos and images to people in Egypt, then everyone in Egypt would send them back to Libya and other countries around them, hoping that they will make their way to the Western countries, as it will only be the western news channels that will broadcast them to the world. On the other hand there are lots of people not using social networking sites for this reason, and use it to just communicate more efficiently with their friends. In the last few years social networking sites have been very much an up and coming technology, and it is thought that there is to be more than 800 million active users, and 50% of these log in on any given day on one of the most popular social networking sites called ‘Facebook’. Another interesting fact about ‘facebook’, is that you can choose from 1 of 70 languages, which I feel was the big fact that stood out to me, as it shows that it is used all across the world.