Tip MySpace

MySpace connects over 150 million people together in a social network. Every day at least 20 million people log-in and check their comments, messages, blogs, and bulletins. Most of the time the blogs are about daily life, the bulletins are lengthy surveys, and the comments are playful banter. EndPovertyToday.com is asking members of MySpace to consider another use for blogs and bulletins: raising awareness about extreme poverty. Even if only 10% of MySpace users signed the ONE Declaration and Stop TB petition, we would still have an absolutely enormous impact in Washington D.C.

We have created a MySpace and you can join as a friend and read our bulletins. By following through on the simple steps and reposting the code supplied at the end of the message, we can reach millions of people.

Malcolm Gladwell explained in The Tipping Point how small things can make a big difference. The central idea is that by focusing on reaching many people, having a catchy message, and reaching people in the right context, any message can spread quickly. If EndPovertyToday.com sends one bulletin to two people, who send it to two friends, who send it to two friends, and so on twenty times then over one million people will have seen and acted on the message. To "tip" MySpace means to turn a little bit of the attention focused on the website into genuine solidarity with the poor.

By tipping MySpace we can make small things, like bulletins asking people to sign the Stop TB petition and download FightAIDS@home, create big change like improved funding for the Global Plan to Stop TB and computer-based research yielding improved AIDS treatment.

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