Your Socio Network Can Be Your Saviour In Emergency

A hurricane hit place would be down with phone lines, jammed mobile networks and power cut, so how do you seek help help just with your mobile phone?
With social networking sites, like, Ning, Twitter and MySpace that happen to be mobilized, you can SMS for your help or update yourself with the latest on the disaster reach or relief. Recently, when the hurricane had hit the US coast, these websites were of tremendous help as they reached to the masses, working like a sound and big emergency broadcast system.Cerado that reach mobiles, blogs and iPhones with its Hurricane Gustav Mobile Resource Guide set up, update users with the nearest available list of the resources for aid, evacuees and places to shelter themselves. In fact, many individuals had come out for the rescue of New Orleans also when they were stuck in a similar situation by offering the resources to eliminate the fuss and chaos created by the disaster following such a medium.
During this, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency had tapped into the user base of MySpace and Facebook that count in millions and linked individual pages to the alert system using MySpace. Users at Facebook created groups for guiding how to help and reach the help. Micro bogging service, Twitter that provides SMS service was of great help for those who wanted to enquire about the state of their residential amenities from the people who were still there in the area hit or to get the clean up help for all the messed.
People kept a track of the direction of the hurricane from Google Earth and Craiglist, a classified site sold out the necessary items, like generators and others as demanded then. But the best of all was offered by hurricanes08.org that provided all these diverse services under one roof.
In such an ugly hour of crisis, when there was a major power and telecommunication service loss, it can't be ensured that the information from these sites reached to the areas hit effectively but were definitely a relief in the air of sigh, to an extent.