The internet has a power of being able to spread an idea or mission across the world in such a short amount of time. Kony 2012 is a campaign by Invisible Children to raise awareness of the child enslavement that is happening in Uganda. Joseph Kony is the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army and is the one who is enslaving the children. The goal is to capture him and return all the victim children home.
The campaign created a video about the horrible crimes and it has stretched across the internet via youtube, with over 86 million views, Twitter, and Facebook. It is hard to find someone who hasn’t heard about this campaign but prior to the video, very few people knew exactly what was going on. It is amazing how social media sites are capable of spreading such awareness to so many people. People across the world are becoming a part of the campaign and doing what they can in order to stop this terrible crime.
With the amount of people around the world that are members of these social media sites, do you think that this crime can be ended quicker than it would be without the video being spread across the internet? How else can people get involved in this campaign?
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