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.

1. How can I use social media for social good? Red Cross Central Texas Youth Leadership Development Conference James Young VP of Products Social Agency

2. Can anyone argue that social media has not become a part of our world?

3. 500 Million people 22% of the world’s internet users 1.6X of the US population

4. 3rd largest community in the world Behind China and India

5. We spend 500 Billion minutes per month on Facebook That’s the same as 1192 lifetimes

6. Over 600,000 new accounts created every day That’s like the US population doubling in 17 months

7. 50 Million tweets every single day That’s 578 tweets per second By the way, Twitter is the 12th largest community in the world The speed of light is 348 meters per second Hummingbirds only beat their wings70 times per second Twitter has over 100 Million users

8. 75 million people use their phone to play in Twitter every day 100 million people use their phone to play in Facebook every day

9. There is a dark side to social media

10. Content lives forever on the internet The Library of Congress is going to archive all tweets since 2006 How about something you wouldn’t want your kids to read? Have you ever tweeted something you wouldn’t want your parents to read?

12. 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

13. There is a bright spot

14. Ben Rattray started Change.org when he was 24

15. Joe Green started Causes when he was 22

18. Organize a flash mob or some ambush marketing to make a point Set up a tweet up for volunteer opportunities with your school Set up personal fundraising page with DonorChoose or First Giving Set up a single or collective blog to discuss issues at your school

19. Take the things you do everyday with your friends and turn them into opportunities to do some social good

21. Thank You James Young @iberyoung

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