How Facebook changed the world

'Somebody had to show the outside world what was happening'
A fruit seller committed suicide due to not being allowed to sell his produce and the pressures of life becoming too much. The day after, 100s of people gathered in the place where he died and began shouting about what they believed in as they felt the same as the fruit seller. Video footage of this protest was shown online on Facebook, it began to become a confrontation but then soon turned into a street war with the police. However, even though all of this had happened, nothing was shown on television the next day.
The police wanted to arrest anyone who was filming as they didn't want any of the footage to get out. However with 2 million of the Tunisian people on Facebook, this meant that they knew they could put the footage on here. Once the footage was released on Facebook, the videos went viral at an uncontrollable speed, it was then shown on television. Police then started to stand on the streets in case anything  reoccurred, however the people were one step ahead, posting the police's whereabouts on Facebook so that they could avoid that street and try another.
Live streaming software was downloaded so that the footage was posted even if the person's phone was taken by the police.
Dates for the big protest was shown on Facebook. The activist's knew that their messages online were being monitored by the police, so they used this to their advantage and tricked the police to go to another place.
Due to all of the protests and footage online the President couldn't take it anymore and stepped down. The Tunisian people were crying with joy, celebrations and fireworks commenced. They had won.
This all happened from the power of Facebook and it just shows how social media is taking over the world.

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  1. GBHSmedia27 March 2018 at 06:49

    Date of youtube video, what was achieved on social media that could not have been achieved any other way?

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  2. GBHSmedia27 March 2018 at 06:55

    Add labels 1A, 1B and Collective identity to help with your revision.

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