Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many

The short story Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many it talks about communication through text messaging. The main example in the story that he uses is when, he goes to the Philippines and most of the residents are using text messaging to communicate with one another because it was free at the time. Instead of actually making a phone call they just used text messaging. President Joseph Estrada of the Philippines became the first head of state to lose power to a smart mob. More than one million residents coordinated by sending text messages to each other to assemble at the site Epifano de los Santos Avenue, known as “Edsa.” Within four days of texting “Go 2EDSA, Wear Blck”, more than one million people had showed up wearing black. The legend of “Generation Text” was born.