Social networking sites have come a long way in giving people the power to get word out about fun events. For the past 5 years the Newmindspace organization, which was established through Facebook, has been pulling thousands of people together for fun events. In their beginning there were perhaps 1,000 people involved in a pillow fight held in the city, but since then their events have sky-rocketted in popularity.
Just yesterday more than 17,000 people swarmed Manhattan’s Union square to take part in a pillow fight of epic proportions. This small group that originated on Facebook has grown to the point in which pillow fights erupted all over the U.S. in support of the idea, thus establishing aApril 3rd as National Pillow fight Day. Now how’s that for activism?
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