Impact Of Social Media On Emergency Management

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Social Media is a trend that is finding more relevance than the daily news. Social media has been able to disseminate information so swiftly across the world making it difficult to stay out the know. Social media offers a viable resource to the world of emergency management due to it`s accessibility, user –friendly mechanisms, and growing population. Social media allows for two-way communication between emergency managers and major stakeholder groups (FEMA, 2015). The current public seeks information out through these forums and emergency management should continue to utilize the notifications, Emergency text correspondents, videos and other items are growing resources to the field.

"There is too much noise in social media to make it useful