Most known bloggers from Egypt today is Mahmound Salem. He developed political interests to oppose Hosni Mubarak's New Democratic Party. His story shows how a young educated group lost confidence in Hosni Mubarak, how technological adeptness evolved into political dissent and how dictatorial heavy handedness backfired. Also began using Facebook and Twitter, using what Ethan Zuckerman (internet guru) calls the "cute cat' theory that if you can use technology to share cat photos the that technology can be used to bring down dictatorships.
For 18 days, thousands of young, educated and frustrated Egyptians called for their president's resignation.
Before they descended on Tahrir Square, they rallied on Facebook.
- More than two years after social media networks helped Egyptian activists organise massive street protests that led to the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak, these networks are now playing a less positive role, often serving as a platform for incitement, rumour-mongering and downright disinformation.
“The same social networks that activists used in unison to bring down Mubarak are now being used to score short-term political goals, manipulate public opinion, and even incite violence,” Adel Abdel-Saddiq, social media expert at the Cairo-based Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, told IPS.
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Mass mobilization during the Jan 25 revolution.