The Facebook Intifada

The article I came across was entitled The Facebook Intifada . Basically, the article spoke about how a Jerusalem man was shot, stabbed, and killed and how it spread all over Facebook and Twitter. The article was written from the son's perspective, however. As the boy sulked and thought about his fathers death, he realized a couple things. The following quote is directly from the article: "Watching the well-wishers congregating in the intensive care unit, however, I realized that the world leaders who were having the most impact on the situation in the Middle East right now weren’t Mr. Ban or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jack Dorsey of Twitter and other young entrepreneurs who shape the social media platforms most of us use every day." This is an example of how Facebook can have direct consequences. These terrorists are using the social platform to promote their violence in Palestinian society. This is completely unacceptable and not a good way of getting peoples' attention via social media. Hence, this is one downfall of social media. The terrorist group used Facebook to promote something that is obviously negative.