{"id":15693,"date":"2011-02-11T20:19:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T01:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/15693\/friendburst-blog-frees-egypt-breaking-news\/"},"modified":"2011-02-11T20:19:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T01:19:12","slug":"friendburst-blog-frees-egypt-breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/15693\/friendburst-blog-frees-egypt-breaking-news\/","title":{"rendered":"FRIENDBURST BLOG FREES EGYPT!!! (Breaking News!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing I have read on political blogs here on FriendBurst, and even back on MySpace, had to do with the pointlessness of someone\u2019s comments given the audience size and influence of this particular medium.\u00a0 Okay, so you write something here on FriendBurst and it gets read by 20…30…maybe 50 people, tops.\u00a0 In MySpace\u2019s heyday, a top political blogger might have a couple to three hundred individual readers, but even that wasn’t very many in the larger scheme.\u00a0 Some people would challenge the validity of the blog itself by commenting, \u201cSo, you think this is going to mean anything?\u00a0 Think this piddly little blog is going to change the world?!?\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless of what I may have thought of the person\u2019s politics, this critique has always turned me off.\u00a0 I mean, if it mattered how many people see something I make, I would have stopped making videos and writing blogs ages ago!\u00a0 You don’t have to think something is going to totally change the world to write something that changes it just a little bit.<\/p>\n

Well, after today, the visibility of a political blog can no longer be said to have any relation to it\u2019s ultimate impact.\u00a0 Not after the FriendBurst Cairo Connection.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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You might have heard about a little situation going on in Egypt where a dictator has been hanging on, completely in da Nile<\/em>.\u00a0 I mean, Denial<\/em>.\u00a0 Well, who woulda thunk it, but a blog written right here on FriendBurst changed all that!! <\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yup!\u00a0 I\u2019ve been asked not to reveal the name of the blogger, as she would instantly be world famous, and no, not every blogger secretly wants that.\u00a0 Suffice to say, that she got bored last night, and after feeding her cat, sat down and typed out a few lines about government being a product of the will of the people, the futility of resisting that will and asked Hosni Mubarak to step down.\u00a0 She only expected a few people to read her missive, but she felt better after writing it, and that was all that mattered.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Apparently, one of our members here on FriendBurst is also a member of Egypt\u2019s Supreme Military Council.\u00a0 That member forwarded the blog to Mubarak, and well\u2026 history was made. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t believe me??\u00a0 It was reported on MSNBC, and I believe EVERYTHING that station broadcasts, particularly since they asked ME to call in and comment on FriendBurst\u2018s role.\u00a0 (Pay attention to the \u2019Breaking News:\u201d captions )<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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So, no matter how few views or comments your blogs get on a little site like this, you never know WHO <\/strong>may be reading, and what will come of your influence. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

BLOG ON!! <\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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