The Power of Words

In the story "Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirky, a women by the name of Ivanna lost her phone in a cab. She accidently left it there and someone sold the phone to a women by the name of Sasha. Ivanna was able to find out who took her phone and get an e-mail address of Sasha. Ivanna's friend Evan contacted Sasha and she was not willing to give the phone back, after knowing who's phone it was and made threats. Evan then decided to go to the people and created a website about the situation and by the power of the people they found where Sasha lived and was able to get her phone returned.

It was easy for people on the web to care and be involved in this event because it relates to most everyone. Most people have a cell phone and most people have lost something in their lifetime. These situations make it easy for one person to help out. It seems that when someone can relate to something so easily it makes them want to help out because they have been in their shoes and knows how it feels.

It is amazing on how people can send messages and they get across the Internet so quickly. Once Evan made the website, he sent the link onto his friends and his friends continued to send it on, and so forth. This is what was able to get the wide group of people.