An infographic from Schools.com explores the explosion of social media has a way of reporting the news. To help illustrate the point, it lists eight stories that broke Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter:

• Egyptian uprising (Facebook)
• Protestors killed in Bahrain (YouTube)
• Hudson River plane crash (Twitter)
• Hillary Clinton won’t serve in a cabinet position an Obama second term (Twitter)
• The royal wedding announcement (Twitter)
• Whitney Houston’s death (Twitter)
• Newt Gingrich is running for president (Twitter)
• Osama bin Laden raid and death (Twitter)

Learn more—including the “cons” of social media news—in the infographic:



(via Mashable)