Social media saves lives!

Of everything you've heard about social media, I'm sure most of it was negative. But the truth is: social media is simply a communication form of humanity. With our extensively available technology, man is still at the helm of what that our technology produces. Social media is still shared at the hands of human beings. The following stories are all connected by social media used as a tool in saving lives.

In this blog entry, Thank a Soldier @ThankaSoldier shares how a tweet to a hashtag saved a soldier's life. Sometimes a stranger can help more than a family.

 In this article, Mother Nature Network shares 7 stories of ways social media was used to save lives. I personally found it very interesting that these are 7 different stories using social media in 7 different ways!

This blog from Link-Assistant.com shares four individual stories of how social media saved lives. The author wrote this entry as an effort to uplift her mood.

Mark Horvath @hardlynormal, founder of Invisible People, shares with through this Huffington Post article how Twitter helped the homeless get into housing.