How Facebook changed the world

• How's Facebook Changed the world 
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• World change event were recorded on mobiles phones
• ·      Muhammad Set Himself on fire
• ·      He had no job, no money, shamed by the police, no pride
• ·      Every phone had a phone and took picture of this man on fire
• ·      2010 December uprising – against the Tunisian government
• ·      Ben Ali – running and controlling the country and government – dictator, police state, press censorship, corruption
• ·      Muhammad Buazizi – it didn’t make it on television, it was filmed on mobile phones
• ·      They couldn’t speck freely
• ·      3 and half billion pound fortune
• ·      In Tunisia only quarter of people had online and 90% had a mobile phone in this country
• ·      ‘Stop the cycle of fear’
• ·      Seen across the country on certain news channels
• ·      People were writing on Facebook and twitter to not go on certain streets as there was police – beware of certain streets
• ·      The two men were arrest
• ·      January 6 – 13 Tunisia changed, a lot of riots
• ·      Took 28 days to end his power of the county for Ben Ali
• ·      From dictatorships to pluralism and democracy
• ·      2 million Facebook users in the country (1 in 5)
• ·      Failed PR campaign – TV (old media)
• ·      Internet – Immedite – no single / central hub
• ·      Protest videos – viral
• ·      Ali Jazeera – load arab news
• ·      Copycat demonstration
• ·      Warning on twitter
• ·      Live mobile streaming

Tunisia was once classified an ‘enemy of the Internet’ by Reporters Without Borders .Early in 2011, however, Tunisia was moved to the list of 'countries under surveillance' following a series of little-noticed events in cyberspace. While the change seemed insignificant at first, it would turn out to be momentous. The Tunisian government’sextensive use of the filtering software SmartFilter to shut down Dailymotion, Facebook, and YouTube would ring alarm bells around the world about the health of liberty and democracy in the country. In 2008, Facebook has been reinstated by former President Ben Ali in order to satisfy his family members who served as majority shareholders of the most important mobile phone service provider in the country. It was a decision that would come back to haunt him. Now, instead of the proposed ban, Facebook would play a starring role in the biggest “boomerang effect” the country has ever known.


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i think that the Tunisia issues is very important for many people around the world, as it caused a lot of issues to change society in the middle east and the around the world, as it showed the world the terrible scenes in the middle east and trigger future event like the scenes in Libya and Egypt in recent years, it ended  dictatorships for leaders and rulers in these country, as people for the first time spoke out, had a voice and freedom to speck, as before they were scared and feared the government, but social website like Facebook and twitter given them a voice, a voice which they wouldn't say to the government face to face, but in the internet in front of the computer or a mobile phone, having these scenes on the mobile phone (citizen journalist) it showed the world scenes that that wouldn't be the same on television, as some of it would have been left wing, also it had a feel of realism and normality shown on it, as it shown the audience how people are fighting for their right to live in this country, work, study and etc.