Tuesday 16 April 2013

#Pray for Boston

A horrible tragedy located at Boston marathon on the 15th of April 2013 happened when a bomb was exploded close to the marathon. Horrible, horrible, horrible.

The reaction in the Internet followed the dreadful incidence only after couple of minutes after it had happened. A numerous amounts of photographs, videos and news started to spread in the social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. On the 15th of April, the phrase "Boston marathon" was tweeted 2,910,316 times, can you believe that? At the moment, the #prayforboston reaches 1,051,372 photos posted on the behalf of people, all around the world in Instagram.

Memes are often born from silly and fun events, but this shows, that they are also a convention to bring crowds together after global tragedies.

So people, lets  #prayforboston!


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