When watching Monica's Ted Talk, you really get an understanding for how fast information spreads. It was because of this lightning quick spread that she became a household name in the first place. To visualize just how fast information can spread, you want to look at an exponential graph. When graphing exponential functions, you can see that the information increases so quickly it is impossible to get everything to fit on a normal sized graph. For example, if you say that in one hour three people get information and they pass it onto three more people the next hour, who in turn each pass it on to three other people, the number of people with information goes form 3 to 243 in about 5 hours. This is because it is increasing exponentially. Then, if you make it so information is passed at a more realistic amount of time, say every 15 seconds, 243 people have seen the information in only 105 minutes (1.75 hours). Now lets say that 100 people saw the information at first and passed it on to 100 more. That would make it so that 10,000 people would have seen it in an hour, 1,000,000 in two hours and 100,000,000 in three. That is an insane amount of people in such a short period of time and you can easily see how this spread of information could lead to the downfall of someones career or life. As time passes, the number of people who have seen the information keeps increasing by larger and larger amounts. If the graph is adjusted, the values increase by the equation x=y^x (y to the x power). In this equation, y is being raised to the x power so it is increasing exponentially. Information travels extremely fast, and its important to remember that and pay attention to what you are putting out in the world.
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