RE:The Role of Social Media in the Arab Revolts

The use of social media was incredibly smart on the half of the young Arabs in Egypt, Tunisia, etc. who showed the world what they are protesting and what is happening to them. They knew a majority of our generation have Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, and they can share their stories, first hand accounts, photos and videos out to the world from the peoples view, not just the governments or the medias view, but from the actual people. Although the Egyptian government did find a way to silence the people by shutting off the 3G in the country and stopping the connection of news coming from the Egyptian youth out to the public. The role of Social Media played a crucial role in the mobilization of the youth in Egypt and Tunisia, but unfortunately it was not effective enough in Egypt because the protests of 2011 had little effect.