Reddit: Activism Center

I've referenced Reddit before in a couple of posts and I thought I would explain and highlight it more here. Along with my love fair with Al Jazeera, Reddit gives me breaking news and discussion on events as they happen. Reddit is a social news sharing site; people post links to videos, pictures, comics, articles, anything and everything you could think of. It is also made up of many different subreddits that each deal with a certain topic. The most popular ones are on the frontpage, what everyone sees when they first visit Reddit. Politics and World News are a couple that I find quite useful in finding stories and discussion on them. Also the SOPA subreddit has become pretty big, with numerous posts a day and lots of discussion. Sometimes subreddits are small however. They may not have very many posts, or if they do little discussion. However, these subreddits are still useful as they can give you links to stories and videos that you may have never seen otherwise. R/Egypt is a good example, not that many readers but numerous good posts. I cannot tell you the number of times I've stumbled upon something on Reddit only to hear it a day later on the news. Reddit frequently shows itself to be one of the first place news stories emerge, as they are a large community on the internet. In today's style of journalism, stories often break over the internet and I find that Reddit is a good place to discover these. Plus it also supplies tons of entertaining content as well. I suggest you go check out Reddit, I think you'll enjoy it.