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BOULDER, Colo. — Emergency managers say social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Flickr are changing the way disaster situations are handled.
Dr. Jeannette Sutton of CU Boulder’s Natural Hazards Center has been conducting joint research with the school’s Department of Computer Science. The center’s research found that, increasingly, when disaster strikes, the Web-savvy are seeking out and sending out information via social networking sites.
Sutton said one of the first documented signs of the phenomenon came in the hours after the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus in April 2007.
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