I am very aware that this is going to be my 4th blog post within the past 24 hours. I had no intention to be blogging this much today, but I’ve read For The Win and come across a really interesting article about Facebook privacy and employment.

I saw this video on my Facebook news feed last night. I didn’t watch it. In the past 24 hours, 5 additional people shared it there. I still didn’t watch it. Four hours ago, I heard my husband watching the video over my shoulder. I didn’t walk over there to see what it was about. An hour ago, I checked my sister’s Twitter and #StopKony was what I saw first. So I gave in and watched the video. It was approximately 30 minutes long and at first I was bothered because I’m not really the political activist type, but at the 10-minute mark, I was engaged.

Joseph Kony is a rebel Ugandan leader of The Lord’s Resistance Army. For the past 26 years, he’s kidnapped and forced children of Africa to mutilate and kill others against their will. Thousands of children have been taken from their loving families and instructed to do harm. It’s a humanitarian shame. Kony has gotten away with this because no one in the world knew how to capture him. U.S. forces are in Africa helping the Sudan army find him, but they can only stay there if we let our government know that this is an important issue for us, the people.

I’m posting this to help spread the word, if you haven’t seen it already. Or if you were like me and it took 24 hours to actually watch it. I was amazed at the fact this video was uploaded on March 5, 2012 and two days later (today, March 7, 2012 at 9:40pm) has 11,624,969 views. I really liked that this movement is time sensitive. With the upcoming event on April 20, 2012 I think many, many more people will hear about it and it will lead to Joseph Kony’s capture.

Please watch this because this is a true testament of what Web 2.0 has become. We are able to connect with cultural influences (Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah, Ellen, Tim Tebow, etc),  political influences (Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, etc), and people all around the world to shed light on one issue. We are shaping history every time we share this video and tweet/status update about it.