American earthquake highlights the advantages of social media information rapid communication

Introduction: Foreign media August 24 published an article said, the United States Virginia State earthquake, in the traditional media is still struggling to report the incident, a large number of news has been in Facebook, Twitter and other social media widely disseminated, showing the social media in the speed of information transmission advantages. The following is the main content of the article: U.S. local time August 23 1:51 P.M., Virginia State Richmond near the Richter magnitude 5.8 earthquake, central and eastern cities have varying degrees of obvious tremors.　　On social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, a large number of netizens are talking about the rare earthquake that took place on the east coast of the United States, many of which are teasing the east Coast people. On Facebook, Twitter, and even Google +, a large number of East Coast netizens have asked whether the Tuesday real earthquake, or the monster of the big guy "Godzilla" suddenly come.　　For many of the east Coast residents, the storm has become commonplace, but the quake is likely to be the first time in their lives. Searching for the word "earthquake" on Twitter will immediately result in a large number of results, from the victim to the user.　　Because of the geopolitical reasons for Facebook users, it seems that the feedback from the relevant news is much earlier than the response to the earthquake. The quake also made Americans humorous. On the foursquare of the US social networking site, about 14,000 users joined the "Apocalypse of Earthquakes" (earthquakepocalypse) site. The site was created by a user in New York. Strange as it may seem, it helps to calculate the number of people who feel the quake.　　Before that, the east Coast people will always join in the winter Apocalypse (Snowpocalypse).　　The West Coast netizens, who have been so surprised by the quake, will never miss the chance to scoff at their fellow East Coast compatriots. Dennis Miller Dennis Miller, a Facebook user who has long lived in the California State quake zone, said: "Is there really a magnitude 5.8 earthquake?" Come to the West Coast, I'll offer you breakfast.　　"Although a large number of users like this message, but are all West Coast users."　　Miller said he could not hear the response from East Coast netizens at the moment, presumably sitting under the kitchen table.　　Miller also said he would not be woken up in the event of a magnitude 5.8 quake. In this respect, the East Coast residents also magnanimous to express understandable. Joanna Lazzo Joanne Razo, who lives in Washington, said she once lived in Los Angeles, where earthquakes of this magnitude were nothing to the locals.　　She believes that the most photographed is not the earthquake itself, but the east Coast does not have the hardware to deal with the earthquake. Stramari Haul Stellamarie Hall, who works for a marketing company in San Francisco, said she saw FaceboOk highlighted a large number of "East Coast people terrified" information, and her company's east Coast branch also immediately issued an alert, claiming that the relevant business may be affected. "I was born in San Francisco and I've had several earthquakes and the biggest one happened in 1989 years," says Howe. We're used to it. But if there's a sudden snowstorm on the West Coast, we'll be scared too. "In addition, netizens posted photos of people on the east coast via Twitter and Facebook," he said. (Puma)