Social Media as it pertains to Twitter and Facebook will be an ever expanding source in revolutions to come. I think that it would of been a lot harder to organize the Egyptian people into the Flash mob that occurred in Tahir Square. I think that when people saw on Facebook that their was a mass of people and there were Safety in numbers. Like the documentary that we watched, one the Egyptian women described that people would see pictures of huge crowds and know that everything was alright.
I think this is also important because social media is commercialized and is usually not controlled by the State. Now there are places like North Korea that social media and other media sources are more restricted which I would imagine it would be considerably harder to receive.
Returning back to the middle east I think that Syria is a very similar case to that of Egypt. I have looked online and I have seen video coming out of Syria. Granted everything you see and hear on the internet is not necessarily true. We know that there is obviously and armed conflict and that helps to get that info out. I think that before too there was this assumption that you needed a leader, a single person to unite them(Being the rebels or revolutionists) ie Castro in the Cuban revolution. So I think that there is this new norm out there regarding social media. I think that Social Media is that Leader, the thing that brings people together and leads them. Not necessarily a cause per say but more of unifying factor. I think that Social media is so embedded in our generation that it will be hard for it not to be important in the future. Especially in something that is so important as a nations future during a revolution.
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