Here Comes Everybody

Earlier this year I worked with a few friends from my ethics class to promote social change. Our Goal: To make simple acts of service a part of each student’s day. Together, we founded Text2Serve.  By sending a simple message to 40404, a person could sign up to receive daily service challenges. Within a week we had over 100 members! One day the challenge was to make a yummy treat and share it with a friend. Within a few hours three plates of goodies had shown up at my door. Unknown to me, we had formed our own Text2Serve community. The book, Here Comes Everybody, discusses the global impact of easy networking. Suddenly terms like flash mob, open source, wiki, and crowd sourcing have become commonplace. With no barrier to communication, vast communities can form overnight. As growing numbers of individuals connect, a network can quickly gain an enormous amount of influence. While The First Amendment enables freedom of speech, this ability to network grants power of speech. The game changing power of the Internet enables even the youngest of students to have an enormous impact on the world.