After 9/11, every citizen became familiar with the color coded terrorism alert system. Different colors represent different levels of threat towards America from terrorists. From the low green level to the highest color of risk, red, the color system lost its potency with me since other alert system such as the air quality of the world system has a comparable color coated system.
Now the government has switched its ranking system from the five option, to a two choice level of warning- Elevated or Imminent. Here’s the kicker, the government has also noticed how important Facebook and Twitter has become. Instead of simply posting the warning levels on news stations, starting April 27th, the government will use the social media giants to effectively spread the warnings. Hopefully this will spread the news faster and more efficiently to the people of this great country.
