Social Media is fast, but Social Change is slow

Ngeth Moses

What happens on the Internet every 60 Seconds

• 6,600+ pictures are uploaded to Flickr• 600 videos are uploaded to YouTube• 695,000 status updates, 79,364 wall posts and 510,040

comments are published on social networking site Facebook

• 168,000,000+ emails are sent, • 98,000 tweets are generated on Twitter• 20,00 new posts are published on micro-blogging platform• 370,000+ minutes of voice calls done by skype users• 13,000+ hours of music streaming is done by personalized

Internet radio provider Pandora

Why Social Network(s)?

• Everybody’s e-contact(s)

• Debating

• Mobilization

• Groups (both personal and public)

• Entertain and fun

Creating you own news platform(s)

• The Moses Daily

• My Storify

• My blogs – Posterous

• My Hoot suite

Something I’ve found interesting

• Live Tweet

• I make my own news (Storify link to Posterous)

• My best friends Apps

• Twitter contact