The Power of Social Media

On Sunday the Los Angeles International Airport had to delay, cancel, and divert several flies due to a shooting incident scare. CNN covered the story and said that passenger were running out of terminals and on to the tarmac in the airfield. The south runway of the airport has to stop receiving flights because of people that were on the tarmac. What triggered the scare were loud noises that people thought were gun shots. Originally only one terminal herd these noises but due to social media and word of the mouth the news spread quickly throughout the airport. Airport security officers and Los Angeles Police Department cleared the airport of any type of threat and passenger were finally bussed to safe locations. The fact that some people took loud noises as gunshots makes me wonder is our country on edge due to domestic violence or to the fact that we are receiving Syrian refugees and are not comfortable with the actions that our government is taking to protect this country from ay terror attacks.