NBC News reporter Richard Engel tweeted out this picture today from Cairo. An Egyptian protester held up a sign reading, “thank you Facebook.” Social media has played a critical role communicating during this volatile situation on the ground.
Coincidentally, Facebook turns 7-years-old today.
Try to visualize all 500 million users on Facebook across the globe. One very clever intern at Facebook, Paul Butler, connected all the dots between 10 million pairs of friends. Those darkish blobs are countries and those spiderweb tufts are connections. Now try to imagine the amount of ridiculous photos between everyone.
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