Sunday, April 29, 2007

Virgina Tech, healing online

This post doesn't have anything to do with law but I wanted to talk about the internet as it has helped get people connected after the horrific events that happened less than 2 weeks ago at Virgina Tech. If you go on Facebook.com you can find dozens of groups created to memorialize the victims and to allow people to talk about how they feel and give their condolences to families and friends. The internet also had a huge role on the day of the shootings as phones weren't working on the campus. Many students couldn't get in touch with families because the phone lines went down due to overload so they got online and imed and emailed everyone they could.

I can't even imagine what would have happened if the internet was not around to help these victims get in touch with their families.

1 comment:

Thomas Holubiak said...

I totally agree. Facebook proved very worthy by letting students bond over this tragedy.