This video has opened my eyes in a whole new way to the power of social media. No doubt, the internet has changed the world forever. I thought Tommy shooting the laptop was incredible. This one blows that away.
“Kony 2012” was posted on YouTube Monday morning CST and on that day it received around 66,000 views. Invisible Children spread the word to their followers and friends asking them to show support by tweeting, sharing on Facebook, Tumblr, and other social media.
Tuesday, the viral effect began to kick in when @laurencassie, a Tweeter with only 29 followers at the time, tweeted the story to Oprah and Oprah retweeted it to her 9.6 million fans. When this happened, celebrities became aware of the cause and began tweeting, posting to FB and their social media circles. Justin Bieber, P Diddy, and many others pushed the story to their multi millions of fans and followers.
Today, March 9 at 12:00 noon CST USA, the view count is 56,647,137! Simply amazing. The view count has increased by one million views since I started writing this post about an hour ago.
We are truly all connected on this planet. We all should care for the well being of our fellow human beings. The international community has to unite against the bully murderers of the world and remove their ability to inflict these atrocities on their fellow human beings. I am not saying we should go to war every time a new conflict breaks out somewhere in the world. There are other measures that can be taken as well, but this guy has been murdering men, women, and CHILDREN for 26 years. I am glad to see our government has send 100 military advisors to Uganda to aid in finding this guy. Where are the other world leaders on this? What are they doing? What have they done already. Apparently not enough. So far there has been a lot of lip service given but not much action taken. It is time Joseph Kony’s reign of terror comes to an end and he gets just punishment for his crimes against humanity.
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