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In class today we watched a documentary called "How Facebook Changed the World".

This video was incredibly interesting to watch, especially as someone who uses Facebook mostly to look at cute baby pictures and save cooking and baking videos.

The video looked at the revolt of government in Egypt and Arab Spring. The government was controlling and the people wanted both of the rulers out. The leaders of the protest used the internet as their form of communication.

Both of these places had internet that was being controlled by the government. In this day and age though many people did not have trouble getting around the attempt to censor and hide the information.

We discussed Facebook in class as well. I thought that it was interesting how Facebook can be used for more than baking videos and cute baby pictures. I also thought it was interesting that Facebook can take the things you like and look at and then coordinate your news feed accordingly. It seems a little strange to me that I can see a post from four days ago right under a post from today.

I also thought it was interesting that there are crawlers which crawl through a website looking for keywords. These keywords can help the placement of your website on a search engine. 
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