How Can I Use Social Media For Social Good?

How can I use social media for

social good?

Red Cross Central Texas Youth Leadership

Development Conference

James YoungVP of ProductsSocial Agency

Can anyone argue that social media has not become a part of our world?

500 Million people

22% of the world’s internet users

1.6X of the US population

3rd largest community in the world

Behind China and India

We spend 500 Billion minutes per month on FacebookThat’s the same as 1192 lifetimes

That’s like the US population doubling in 17 months

Over 600,000 new accounts created every day

50 Million tweets every

single day

That’s 578 tweets per

second

Hummingbirds only beat their wings70 times

per second

The speed of light is 348 meters per

second

By the way, Twitter is the 12th largest

community in the world

Twitter has over 100 Million

users

100 million people use their phone to play in Facebook every day

75 million people use their phone to play in Twitter every day

There is a dark side to social media

Content lives forever on the internet

The Library of Congress is going to archive all tweets since 2006

Have you ever tweeted something you wouldn’t want your parents to read?

How about something you wouldn’t want your kids to read?

Kevin Colvin fired because he took off work under the pretense of a family emergency, only to post photos of himself at a party

"Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.”

Domino’s pizza employees posted a video of themselves doing gross stuff to a customer’s pizza and got fired

There is a bright spot

Ben Rattray started Change.org when

he was 24

Joe Green started Causes when he

was 22

Set up personal

fundraising page

with

DonorChoose or

First Giving

Set up a tweet

up for volunteer

opportunities

with your schoolSet up a single

or collective blog

to discuss issues

at your school

Organize a flash

mob or some

ambush

marketing to

make a point

Take the things you do everyday with your friends and turn them into opportunities to do some social good

Thank YouJames Young@iberyoung

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