The world goes green. Again.

And it’s not what you’re thinking. No, it has nothing to do with re-usable grocery bags or hybrid cars (even though I’m in love with the new Prius. That’s a different post). In a show of solidarity in the “tweetsphere” tweeters are around the world encouraged to “go green”, give your avatar on Twitter a greensish hue through Helpiran.org.  Why is going green so important? Glad you asked.

There are so many people who hate the idea of twitter and believe it’s the next fad–”who cares about if you just ate a hamburger?” But wait a minute–it’s changing the world. In the days of the Cold War, Tienanmen Square and thousands of other times in history when we wish we could just have a glimpse of what was going on on the other side. And now we can. In 140 characters.The idea of real-time is finally a reality.This generation “gets” it. Communication is now about free-flowing ideas and instantaneous information. Anything less is simply unacceptable.

Technology is changing the course of history. Political factions and technology haters can fight it all they like. Like it or not, the world is a very different place because of “social media”. In fact, using that term feels so incredibly dated and irrelevant I hate to even use it. It trivializes it to something that will come and go. Newsflash: it’s not about Myspace, Facebook, creating widgets, apps, or whatever else. If it was that simple, things like the CNN backlash would never have happened:

“When CNN failed to give the Iranian election the attention it deserved, Twitter users bashed the network with the #CNNFail hashtag, which trended on Twitter for an entire day. CNN subsequently revised its coverage, making the Iranian political situation one of its most prominent stories (while failing completely to acknowledge that they’d failed to do so in the first place).” (www.twittown.com)

The world is changing kids. Hold on. We’ve only begun.

If you would like to show your support of our the Iranians please click here and “go green” with me and thousands of others: http://helpiranelection.com/

This entry was posted on Monday, June 22nd, 2009 at 5:44 am and is filed under CULTURE, SOCIAL and tagged with big ideas, twitter. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.