Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg and can be used to aid political uprisings by connecting people and spreading information. The document discusses how Facebook allows people to share more and become more open and connected, helping to liberate countries by giving them the internet. It provides examples of how Facebook has been used to organize revolutions in Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

1. Facebook's Global Impact

2. What is Facebook?
Who created it?

3. Who uses Facebook and why?

4. How can Facebook be used to aid a
political uprising?

5. “if
people share more, the world will
become more open and
connected. And a world that’s more
open and connected is a better
world". -Mark Zuckerberg

6. “If you want to liberate a
country, give them the internet,”
-Wael Ghonim

7. Let the revolutions begin!

8. We are all connected to one
another

9. V.S.
Communal Thinker

10. Sources
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/books/08book.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/syria-revolution-revolt-against-bashar-al--assads-
regime/2011/03/15/ABrwNEX_blog.html
http://www.itproportal.com/2011/02/23/hundreds-back-facebook-call-saudi-revolution/
http://www.wired.com/business/2011/02/egypts-revolutionary-fire/