User:Sean/HereComesEverybody

A PR Class Take of Here Comes Everybody

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Sharing, Collaboration, Collective Action

Describes group undertaking in form of a ladder.

Sharing

Clay Shirky describes the sharing process in terms of photosharing website Flickr. Since Flickr has decreased in popularity since its acquisition by Yahoo, other social networking services have come to increase to void.

This is most true in the major social networks Facebook and Twitter. Facebook allows users to share posts from others' news feeds, profiles and pages, while Twitter pioneered sharing with the creation of the retweet which allows users to broadcast another tweet as their own, while giving accreditation to the user.

The reason sharing is the first step of the ladder is because it gives participants complete freedom on participation or the lack thereof.