Three people were rescued from the debris caused by the Earthquake in Haiti because of a cell phone text message. The victims were trapped in a supermarket that collapsed. One of them sent a text message to the ONU using her cell phone. According to Joseph Fernandez, a rescue member of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue, the text message said that she was inside the Caribbean Market, near from the fruits, meats and frozen products. The rescue team went to the place and chased the sounds that three people inside were making until they found them. The three people were Ariel, 7 years, Lamy 34 years and Maria, 50 years. Since the three of them were surrounded by food they could eat and survive.

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The Red Cross had set up a number to text from your phone to send $10 dollars to those in Haiti who needed it. From this alone, they have raised $5 Million. Celebrities have tweeted about this and it showed up in my feed by at least 3 other people. T-Mobile also promised to drop all of the costs associated with calling to and from Haiti until the end of the month and has also agreed to drop charges for the text message donation to Red Cross. Google flat out contributed $1 Million of their own money to the cause as well.

There are other online sites that are helping out too, such as Skype who has sent $2 vouchers to its customers in the area, allowing them to communicate for up to an hour and GoDaddy who has donated $500,000 to the cause as well. Facebook has a page where you can learn about the disaster and MyYearbook has raised $3.5 billion in "lunch Money" which isn't actual money, but it is yet to be determined how it translates into helping the cause.

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Yes the title is correct-- I recently found an article, which describes a survey of college students on their social media use.

And I quote "A recent survey of college students dually coordinated by the Participatory Marketing Network and Pace University’s Lubin School of Business’ IDM Lab discovered that students on average spend 33 hours on social media sites. However, when asked if they could go a week without it, only 9% said death would be a better option."

Death? Really...wow. Additionally, 26% respectively said they really couldn’t make it without email or text messaging.

Do you think you would feel that abandoned by a week without these?

See the article here.