welcome back to spotlight i'm arguing arvin just a reminder that my guest on the show today is scott goodstein external online director for the brock about two thousand and eight election campaign scott you mentioned the middle east north africa lots of people say that these were revolutions these were events and mass protests that were internally reminded organized online. what do you think what was the true old social network in these revolutions i don't think in a lot of places around the world social networking had been sort of given credit i think the obama campaign social networking got a lot of new credit because it was something that was that was new ultimately obama was going to win a campaign based on his candidacy the right candidate the right message and lots of people very upset with the direction of the united states in places like. going out and organizing in egypt i truly believe that social networking was was the impetus for a lot of that revolutionary change it got people excited and motivated that they were not alone in their feelings against the government it kept people in