Check out this video on TED.com. It is not that social media can change the world. It already has in profound ways.
How Social Media Can Make History
Remember when it was cool to have a cordless phone? Have things changed!
Personally, I have had some friends and work colleagues for years whom I have never met. These days I learn of major life events in my immediate family– engagements, pregnancies, health problems– through Facebook first.
How has social media changed the way you connect?