It Takes a Village to Find a Phone

Ivanna looses important information about her upcoming wedding after leaving her cell phone, which the information was stored on, in a New York City cab. Lucky for Ivanna she was able to retrieve this information from her phone provider which also transfered some new pictures that had been taken on Ivanna's camera phone. They were of Sasha, a girl who had found the phone in the cab and after being contacted by Ivanna and her friend Evan refuses to give the phone back. This leads to Evan blogging about the events and just keeping it updated as the story develops. The public responded and the story gained a lot of attention. Other social media sites were used to identify Sasha, and the popularity of the matter ended up getting the police involved, and Ivanna got her cell phone back. 

1. The influence users can have on their followers either on a blog or twitter. 
2. Social media sites are so interactive now that people are beginning to be able to form groups and fight for a purpose or cause that is important to them. Where as before it was much harder to communicate and organize anything.
3. Some people's moral compass is so far off.
4. Should police officers and investigations be determined based upon what is more popular among the public?
5. Sasha and her family continue to threaten Evan and Ivanna through different social media platforms. Online bullying has become a real issue from younger children.

How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history

Clay Shirkly

--- Clay Shirkly discusses how different social media sources have become so influential in every day life in his speech; How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history. Shirkly argues that professionals are beginning to no longer deliver the news to various publics. The way many social media sites work allows users to interact with one another on so many different levels that friends are reporting current events to their friends and colleagues seconds after witnessing it. China does all they can to keep social media sites from influencing their citizens life or opinions by monitoring, and screening information they allow internet browsers in China to view. This is referred to as The Great Firewall of China. But how long can China really keep doing this? Social media is expanding and is used more and more for different things on a daily basis. With China being amongst one of the world's leaders in technology they can't afford to be so naive when it comes to censoring information available to the general public.  Social media is everywhere around us, literally with FourSquare and it seems everyone is joining a new social media site every other weeks. Parents and grandparents have even jumped on the bandwagon as a way to keep in touch with their kids or monitor their behavior. With social media becoming increasingly ever more popular I am interested to see what the next big break through will be, and whether it will come from an already existing site or something new that will sweep the Web.