Political Changes Through Social Media
Facebook has 1.4 billion users spend 20 billion minutes per day on it. Twitter has 240 million users who send an average of 145 million tweets per day. YouTube users upload around 4.5 million hours of video per month and in the same interval, 6 billion hours of video get viewed. WhatsApp boasts of 465 million active users in less than 4 years. “May you live in interesting times” – Chinese curse In the history of mankind, it has never been easier for people to communicate with each other, at such a low cost. Information which was available to a select minority is now available to the masses for free and through multiple channels. Not only is it easy to publish our smallest thoughts, but with technology it has also become trouble-free to find a niche audience, however geographically dislocated. And remember, social media is not just a tool for spreading knowledge; it also helps us share basic human emotions...