Tracing Swine Flu

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92522

This shows both the advantage and disadvantage of the social networks and how it works.

Unlike Tsunami, social networks are giving proper information to prevent and current status of swine flue in states, but it is also spreading fear too much.

Instant reports are also being tweeted through Twitter, the microblogging site that allows users to post updates in 140 characters. Surely those who want to be in-the-know are searching for anything flu-related, but right now the levels of flu are so relatively low that some experts fear that Twitter's instant updates are doing more harm than good.

In other words, spreading information: good. Spreading panic and misinformation: not so good. Then again, there's Joe Biden. The vice president, in blurting out that he warned his family not to get on subways or airplanes for fear of the flu, has more influence over the panic button than all the social networks combined.