The U.S. Military Is Now Using Social Media Sites To Get Out Its Message

US Military And Facebook Are Now Friends -- Global Post

US military finds social media sites like Facebook help control its message.

NEW YORK — The number of U.S. soldiers wounded in Afghanistan is on the rise. Fourteen hundred more Marines are heading to Kandahar. Dozens of Afghans have been killed in suicide attacks. And a few solar-powered street lights were installed in Kabul.

Those are some of the stories about the war in Afghanistan that were covered in major news organizations across the globe during the first week of the year.

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My Comment: The U.S. military has woken up to the realization that social media networks are here to stay .... and the U.S. military cannot change that. So .... instead of trying to limit its impact (which is impossible), they have now decided to embrace what everyone else in the world now takes for granted.