According to the ACLU, police used data from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to track protests in Ferguson and Baltimore following the deaths of Mike Brown and Freddie Gray.
As more and more people access social networking sites, more and more churches are seeing it as the best new way to interact with their members-old and middle age, as well as with potentially younger or unchurched audiences. In many respects, social networking sites provide a free opportunity to interact with church members more easily and readily.