At last some good press.

http://windmillnetworking.com/2011/11/07/social-media-catalyst-social-change/

This a really interesting blog post which highlights some of the major events of the past decade in which social media has acted as a catalyst for social change. Particularly interesting is the paragraph written on the use of Twitter and Youtube in promoting the relief appeal in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake of 2011. It is nice to read something about the positives social media can achieve in using one medium to reach billions of people and bring about social and political change. Things like this can easily forgotten when so many thousands of negative news articles are posted on line every day.  I also strongly agree with the closing line of this blog: 'Social media will go on reinventing itself into a faster, smarter and sleeker mode of communication that will continue to build  virtual bridges everywhere - and help societies deal with challenges in new and more communal ways" They say the world is the smallest its ever been, this has definitely been helped by social media. It seems its onwards and upwards. Where will it end? For the time being, who knows.