Consumers! of course, why didn't I think of that? I disagree that these social media sites like Twitter actually sparked revolutions. People will fight and revolt and protest with or without the internet. We've been doing it for literally forever. It's human nature to communicate when we have a problem. But, again, I have my own selfish point of view regarding internet technology and its value in society. Thanks for the enlightening POV . I'm not nearly as familiar with economic modeling as I believed I was. The perspective that there can be a value placed on empathy, for example, seems intuitive but I just sort of assumed it was ignored as a worthless personality trait for the sake of economic modeling.
I'm not saying social media can spark revolutions, but the have proved to be useful tools. Don't know if the rest of that was sarcastic or not :/