Revolution

The days of secret meetings and organizations in order to plan an armed rebellion are long gone. During the French Revolution, meetings and message spreading throughout the country were held secret, thus all this built in emotion erupted into extreme and unnecessary violence in the streets. Today’s form of rebellion is quite different. Technology has evolved the way we live, with social networks giving people the opportunity to connect to and reveal their feelings on controversial topics and issues. Facebook given this opportunity to people across the world, helping them combine their ideas and talents to better their country and their government, and spur peaceful revolutions. In Egypt’s recent rebellion, the people communicated openly through social media and (for the most part) peacefully rebelled against the oppressive government with their words and sentiment rather than their weapons and fists. And after a week or so, their rebellion was successful and hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets of Cairo and celebrated that their humane efforts forced the dictator of decades to step down.

This is how a revolution should be handled , with people pooling together their power, minds, talents, and ideas through social media to liberate themselves from tyranny. We’ve seen other revolutions through the years, but countless people were killed and bloodshed poured into the streets. This is the first revolution that we have seen that has incorporated the technology that’s available in a positive way, to promote peaceful rebellion- and it resulted in liberation. This method and outcome showed us what a revolution is all about and the positive result in can bring to millions of people.