No Blog Post

There is no post this week because I have been writing three seperate papers for school. Just burned out on writing for the week. Thanks!

Social Media and 9/11

Last year, on this exact day, I wrote a blog post about how media in general has changed over the years. Today, I noticed tons of bloggers and journalists writing stories over the same thing but with more focus on how social media would have been beneficial 11 years ago on 9/11. So for today’s post I will just repeat what I wrote last year because it is still true.

“When I read and hear others stories about where people were and how they heard about the planes crashing into the twin towers, almost all say “I found out through the television” or “My friend called me to tell me about it.” Then the next day people would pick up a newspaper to learn more. Think about how you were notified and how you communicated with others about it. No one was flocking to Twitter or Facebook to spread the word. They were not clicking news apps on their phones to find out information. Instead, the media used television as their main outlet. It is amazing to me how much has changed over a ten year time period. Now most would go online to social media sites when seeking information. Before, people could only watch and then converse with those they saw in person or called. Now, one can get information from multiple sources and talk about it in seconds to others worldwide.”

How could social media have changed the spread of information and events that happened on 9/11? There are so many answers to this question but we have to remember that this was 11 years ago. Yes things would have been much different, but we could apply social media to any major catastrophe that happened in history and come up with ways in which it could have been different.

So once again I repeat myself from last year:

“To all of those who lost their lives and to their families, we remember you on this day. To those who fight to protect this country, thank you for all that you do.”