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Posted By: Cornelius Aesop on 2010/01/13 in How To's & Lessons Learned, South & Central America, Travel - Comments: View Comments

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If there ever was a clear distinction between a traveler and a tourist I think the movement started by the Metador Network is a perfect example. Less than 24 hours ago (2/12/10 – 9:45 PM EST), an earthquake that registered a 7.0 hit Haiti, to put this into perspective the Great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was an 8 and the West Java earthquake was also a 7 on the Richter scale. The latter “killed at least 79 people, injured over 1,250, and displaced over 210,000,” according to Wikipedia.

OK, so maybe Wikipedia isn’t the best authority on all the facts but this isn’t about dolling out numbers and hard pressed facts it’s about people and the connection citizens of the world have with one another. This is about the power of social media being put to the test to see if when it matters Twitter and Facebook can be used for good. This isn’t some feed the children charity plea to help support the wallet of the “charity’s” figure heads, no this is merely a re-tweet request. That’s right the people of Metador Network want you to send a message to Jet Blue that help is needed and people are willing if a means to get there are provided. That’s it, I mean how many people re-tweeted that Parez Hilton needed help because he was punched in the face? Now when it counts will the support be there?

Did I pull at your conscious enough to get you willing to figure out how you can help? I hope so, because the next step is pretty easy.

Retweet this message by simply clicking it (I made it that easy for you):

@JetBlue: If @MatadorNetwork could fill a plane with volunteers, would you fly them to Santo Domingo to help #quake vics in #Haiti?

Go to the Metador Change article that inspired this post or see how else you can contribute to this social movement.

There is no time like the present, so help make a difference with a click and maybe I won’t fling things at you.

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