Social media can be used for social change. 91% of mobile users go online for social purposes compared to 79% of PC users. The document discusses using social media to help communities through education, employment opportunities, and uplifting people. It also describes a conversation on Mxit where a user seeks help for a 14-year-old friend who has tried to commit suicide and smokes weed.

1. Social Media for Social Change By @marlonparker

5. 91% of mobile phone users go online to socialize compared to only 79% of PC users

7. 4,000,000 Toll FREE Numbers

8. 5,000,000 PC Web Users

9. 36 Million

10. R0.75c per SMS 10 Billion SMS/Texts

11. 38% Disposable Income

12. 12 Million Mobile Web Users

13. 22Million Mobile Chat

15. “ Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.” Lin Yutang

16. Stories of Hope Digital Voice Community Education Employment Upliftment

17. Community Social Media Mom 3.0 SM Teens Senior Mobile Sessions The Reconstructed

18. Mobile Blogging

19. Social Media Surgery

21. Mobile Counselling 3:41 PM @mxit: i've got this friend of mine i don't know whats wrong with her she tried commiting suicide a couple of times and she smokes weed how can i help her? 3:46 3:42 PM me : hw old is she? how old is your friend 3:45 PM @mxit: She's 14 PM me : do her parents knw dat she tryd 2 commit suicide? 3:47 PM I c.Do you know why your friend wants to commit suicide? that is young so does her parents know she is smoking 3:50 PM @mxit : Ja her parents know they caught her smoking it so she tried 2 commit suicide and i want to help her but i don't know how 3:52 PM me : Does she mix with friends who smoke? 3:53 PM @mxit :Ja we are 6 in the group 4 of them are smokers its just me and my sister who dont smoke 3:54 PM me : Wil she spk 2 sum1 in person if she cn get help? 3:53 PM @mxit :Ja she wants hlp and I dnt know what 2 do 3:55 PM me: which area do u live? 3:56 PM @mxit: In pta 3:56 PM me: we will gt sum1 in pta 2 help. Can u wait online 4 da numbers? 3:58 PM @mxit: k

22. # Social Media Trainers: 16 # Trained in Social Media: 276 # of Mobile Subscribers: + 80,000 # of Interactions: +2,500,000

23. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

24. Thank You www.rlabs.org www.marlonparker.co.za [email_address] Marlon Parker @marlonparker marlonct +2721 469 1138 +2721 637 4037 +2776 403 4920