News Center | University of Colorado at Boulder

"Social media and technologies that support peer-to-peer communication are being used in increasingly creative ways in the aftermath of disasters by people who are either seeking or sharing information that is unavailable from more traditional sources, research by a University of Colorado at Boulder faculty member has found."

The correct question is should it continue being used in disaster situations. It'd be great to hear from the firefighters who who used twitter on their phones during the Santa Anna fires. Possibly today the technology is in use in other countries. The article mentioned something interesting though, it mentioned "peer-to-peer" social networks. How can Facebook and Myspace wedge into that space?