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Vegas Shooting and Social Media

Last night there was a shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas. It was very interesting to see how the media chose to cover the event. It seemed like many new stations relied on social media posts to figure out exactly what happened and to find pictures and videos. There were many videos of people trying to hide from gunshots. It was extremely disturbing to see everyone laying on the ground because they had nowhere to run. This was an extremely intimate point of view because it was coming directly from people that were there at the time.
It was also interesting to see how Twitter users posted about their loved ones that they could not contact after the shooting.  All these posts had thousands and thousands of retweets. This is one example how I believe social media is changing the world for the better. What do you think about the social media posts on the shooting?
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  1. UnknownOctober 3, 2017 at 11:17 AM

    I think the social media postings regarding the shooting were insightful and helpful. Without them, many of the people missing may have never found their families and the police would not have been able to get much needed information out to the public. All in all, it is important that we had social media during this tragedy.

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  2. UnknownOctober 3, 2017 at 11:52 AM

    I think that overall the social media postings on the shooting were very positive.

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