The effects of these catastrophic events that have occured in Japan on March 11, 2011 has had an effect on the entire world. However what comes to a surpises me is the fact that a majority of the world is flocking to many different social networking sites such as "facebook", "twitter", and "youtube" to gather information on these events instead of watching the news.
VoaNews.com reports how US, Japanese students began to flock to these social networking sites minutes later to find out and pin point locations. As stated on Voanews.com " student berry at Tufts University in Boston, Ma says their goal is to help the relief effort. Mapping out the crisis on the ground either victims or agencies that are going to respond so they have a better picture. he said people have been using this technology since the political turmoil that happened in Kenya during the 2008 elections as well as the relief efforts in Haiti".
The aftermath of these events caused many japanese citizens to go on twitter to express their feelings and fear about these events that happened during the week. There has been apps created by google to help aid japan, as well as facebook creating ads where you can contribute funds to help those in need.