This video is about 4 different people from Northern Africa and the Middle East and their role in the Arab Spring and how social media worked. I really enjoyed this video because it was people around my age that were speaking up. I think this is really interesting because the youth in America doesn't really follow politics that much because we have more rights and freedom. It was interesting to see how these 4 different people thought about the revolutions and how the social media played an important part with them. I also liked how the first girl said that there were rich people and working class people all gathering together for the same cause. She said she never would have imagined these people to be together fighting for the same things. This was interesting to me because it gave me some perspective of the people. I didn't realize that the rich and the poor were both protesting together. At the end the one girl said in Yemen social media wasn't strong in the beginning and that they looked at how social media was used in the past with different ideas. I thought this was smart because they were able to see what was successful and what wasn't successful.
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I loved this video. I think in part, like you mentioned, because it was people our own age. Specifically I liked when one of the girls said something about youth becoming aware of their rights through social media. This is so true. I'm not big on politics and government and reading the newspaper or watching the TV on things about them. The way I hear about these things are through social media sites like Facebook. When these young people were realizing their rights and what they wanted, they turned to social media to get support and information and how and what they wanted to do about it.
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