Iran and social networking

By: psicomedia

Ābādān : Iran | 5 months ago

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Thank you Facebook. Thank you Twitter. Thank you Social Networks.

It's only thanks to those internet based solutions that million of young people in Iran have the possibility to widespread their voices of protest all over the world.

Young men and women are using their virtual voice to inform the world and to communicate each other in order to organize the protest.

It's really a revolutionary use of tecnology.

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