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This is a presentation we made to a group of high school and college students at the American Red Cross Central Texas Youth Leadership Retreat.
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How can I use social media for
social good?
Red Cross Central Texas Youth Leadership
Development Conference
James Young
VP of Products
Social Agency
Can anyone argue that social mediahas not become a part of our world?
500 Million people
22% of the world’s internet users
1.6X of the US population
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
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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