Times of Crisis: Social Media
Something as trivial as a day at school should be just that, trivial. Things should be normal. People should wave at friends in the halls, pass notes in class, learn, and look forward to recess and lunch. As we have seen in the tragedies in the US and across the ocean in China, sometimes days aren't so trivial. This was truly a slaughter of the innocents. Shortly after parents dropped off their children at Sandyhook Elementary in Connecticut, an emergency page/txt went out to parents with a generic message that there had been a shooting at a school. Parents were advised not to pick up their children, which as any good parent can attest was largely ignored. Within hours word had spread through the US that something horrible had occurred within a small close knit town called Newtown Connecticut. First, word that there had been a shooting arrived in fuzzy preliminary news reports. Then as the day progressed twitter feeds and faceboo...