Social Networking Sites and Modern Age Revolution

While writing 'Animal Farm', George Orwell must not have thought that his idea of symbolizing a revolution will actually work and surpass many levels. This novella depicted the common ideology - shared during the Bolshevistic revolution which is unofficially supposed to be the mother of every modern age public agitation. This revolution changed the face of Europe, primarily Russia.

Revolutions have always earned the credit of making history more interesting for Gen X. But, in 1917, the front runners of Bolshevistic Revolution must not have imagined that after a century, this war will step in the grounds of reality from social networking sites. However, importance of Internet in business world came to the fore in last decade itself but its role in social revolution was crafted during last Presidential election in USA. In this election, Barack Obama was voted as the president of the nation on the web before the official electoral process could take place. Next historic moment of the Internet initiated revolution lists Iranian presidential election 2009, when opposition of the nation used Twitter as its sole messenger to pass on the messages to public. Since, common Iranian public was not allowed to communicate legally for any electoral conversation, they converted Twitter into their postman and forced site authority to unofficially back the cause by postponing its upgrading.

Afterwards, social networking sites became the most favorite podium for public to show their anger and initiate their fight. The social-networking site based revolution was taken to another level during summer 2010 when people widely posted their views on Facebook and Twitter in favor and against of Kashmir Agitation – a burning issue in South Asia. The Egyptian revolt is considered the crowning moment for social networking sites, as leading friendship website Facebook is credited as the primary war front against dictator Hosni Mubarak. With 32,000 groups and 14,000 pages dedicated to Egyptian Revolution, Facebook helped them achieve what, they were craving for decades. No wonder, an Egyptian named his newly-born baby girl 'Facebook!'