Quartz: Thankfully, Social Media Didn't Exist on 9/11

Would social media have diluted our sense of community in the aftermath of 9/11?

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Gabrielle Birkner, co-founder of Modern Loss, penned a post in Quartz today expressing gratitude that social media did not exist during 9/11.

[It] was three years before Facebook, four years before YouTube, five years before Twitter, six years before the iPhone, and nine years before Instagram. So there were no anguished tweets or status updates from those trapped on the upper floors of the Twin Towers. There were no color-filtered smartphone pictures of the burning buildings, uploaded in real time onto Instagram.

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