connected

media connects us. we dont really think about it but because of media we are all connected. at this exact moment i have my facebook open (you probably do too) and i'm talking to my friend alexia. she has lived in portugal, germany, arizona, hawaii, bolivia, peru (where we met) and now texas. 

through media she has been able to maintain friendships with people from all over the world, like for example me. its pretty amazing how in a matter of seconds i not only find out she won her soccer game but i can also see a picture of the crowd going wild and a video of her penalty kick. 

the power of facebook is mindblowing. 

not only does media connect us physically in the fact that we can communicate with each other but it also connect our ideas. also through facebook newspapers twitter and other forms of media we find out what is happening in other parts of the world and inclusively we can become involved.

a couple months ago, there was an organized pillow fight in the boardwalk here in lima. through different tipes of media like newspapers, magazines, facebook, twitter a huge crowd of a couple hundred people showed up (including me, hehehe)

on a more scandalous note, not so long ago a dutch girl accidentally made a facebook event of her 16th birthday party public. this turned into a real-life version of the movie project x which for those of you who saw the movie ends in the whole neighborhood on fire. although this didnt happen, there was a wild crowd of 4,000 people and at least 35 were arrested. 

again, the power of facebook is mindblowing.