'Aiding a Revolution'

It's kind of amazing how much technology influences our lives as a whole world. Often we hear people try to explain the gravity of the role that social media plays in our lives, and often I think that it doesn't really sink in that what they are describing is intense. In the United States we use these social media sites- like twitter- to follow a favorite band or subtly creep on a cute guy, but what I think we don't realize is that while these things are cool, social media sites like twitter are actually helping people much more than entertaining us.
(I know this link is about 7 months old, but it's still so interesting to think that something as seemingly meaningless as twitter can actually aid a revolution!)

http://www.policymic.com/articles/10642/twitter-revolution-how-the-arab-spring-was-helped-by-social-media