Not sure if this relates directly to the theme of these posts, but I thought it was very interesting. I read an article on BBC online claiming that a group which investigates war crimes, The War Crimes Watch List, is using social network site Facebook to track two men responsible for crimes in Darfur. This is a way of using these sites that I had not heard of before. In the article is a quote from Nick Donovan from the Aegis Trust who are behind the Watch List, "Wanted posters can only be seen by a few hundred people at most - the internet is used by billions." This is a very good point and it almost seems strange that this idea has not been utilized more extensively before. Certainly, this idea has possibilities far beyond this case.
The Internet and social networking sites in particular could be used for finding missing children, for example. Police should be given the means to send out a photo and information to the inbox, or bulletin board of every registered user in the area where the child has gone missing. I don't think anyone could question that this would be far more effective than the age old method of putting a child's face on a milk carton. It is one huge advantage to having such a large proportion of the population connected through an interactive medium, such as Facebook.
Read the article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7367634.stm
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That is an interesting use of social media.
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