Social Media used to communicate during mass tragedies

With yesterday's tragedy in Ft. Hood and today's incident in Orlando, there's evidence of individuals using social media sites to communicate with the outside world when using landline or mobile phones was next to impossible.

At Ft. Hood, it was known during the height of the tragedy that cell phone signals were jammed. Emergency officials asked those to use "text messaging" to communicate. Similarly, occupants in the office tower during today's incident in Orlando used Facebook and Twitter to let loved ones know they were okay, this from a report in the Orlando Sentinel.

No longer the technological wave of the future...this is here and now.

E.C. :)