The use of social media really helped these past few weeks involving sandy. Facebook and Twitter helped spread the word of those who needed help and it made it easier to contact family members. The down side to this is most of us had no power or a way to get on Facebook or twitter or any other social network because of power outages and no cell phone service. I experienced not being able to get in touch with one of my friends threw Facebook during Sandy so social media didn't help me as much as i would have liked it to.