Here's a fact. When I want to be motivated by humanity, I go to Twitter.
While the vast majority of the time, Twitter is filled with celebrity fans, badly-spelt updates of less than 140 characters, and random stuff like "Its bedtime! Mwah! I love you followers!", sometimes, it can be absolutely amazing. Like today.
Now, I'm not the most politically aware. I know Mubarak is the President of Egypt, and he did a LOT of shit. My friends rant and rave about it, and would probably hurt me if they realized how ignorant I was, but realistically, I have no clue - one of my few concerns is what will happen in Israel (my girlfriend is there).
However, I do realize that Mubarak is a shit dictator - and thanks to the Tunisian uprisings, Egypt decided to get rid of their president/dictator too, and there have been horrible riots and destruction there. And Mubarak, on Feb. 10, decided to address the nation. For whatever purpose. I'm not watching the speech.
That being said, I'm just absolutely amazed by the show of support on Twitter. With the hashtag #reasonsmubarakislate being the in the top 5 tweets in Canada, it says how smart, funny, and in some cases, caring, Canadians can be.
Good job Twitter World. Way to respond to crises in the best way - the Internet. Its been said hundreds of times, but the Internet Revolution is here - you can't stop the common people's voices anymore.
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