To the mainstream public ’social media’ seemed to force it’s way into our everyday routine and most of us haven’t yet to grasp the nearly unlimited power it has to bring communities together, support causes, and create awareness–for autism. Shoot every cable news network integrates Twitter into practically every broadcast!
I’ve watched communication via the internet take over since the early ’90s. Perhaps you have witnessed the same, or you’re just finding out about these sites called Facebook and Twitter. These mediums are not just ‘trends’ as some critics like to argue. In fact these types of platforms are the future of information and communication transmissions even to places where the government suppresses these type of information exchange. At first Twitter was cast to the side as a trend that would pass within months, suprise! The micro-blogging platform has done nothing but substantially grow by thousands daily, with more and more businesses and individuals embracing it as a main communication tool.
This past week I booted up a program that had been collecting dust on my hard drive for about a year now, Tweet Deck. Tweet Deck allows you to monitor multipule Twitter accounts, mentions about your Twitter account, and updates each time someone types in your specific search query. In my case “autism”. I got to meet and chat with a lot of great people ground the globe, meet some interesting personalities, and most importantly ‘Re-Tweeting’ or ‘Posting’ trending autism news stories for other users to view. What a way to network and create awareness for autism!
While my main focus was Twitter that is by no means the only social media platform. There are over 2,000 autism related communities on web pages such as Yahoo Groups and Facebook respectively. Each sub-group of in these autism social networks has their views on some of the controversial matters so it may take quite a bit of time to find specifically what you are looking for. Not to mention two-thousand times two thousands plus more thousands more of these niche groups might tire out your mouse-clicking finger in hours, and it can take months to find the right one!
So how can theAUTSPOT.com help?
We saw the problem with autism online. There was no single place for parents to come and receive support, share stories, update loved ones on the progress of thier child. theAUTSPOT.com was made out of necessity.
These online communities called ’social networks’ are the future of communication. theAUTSPOT.com utilizes industry experts to be sure the entire autism spectrum community has one single hub they can call home on the world wide web. As these new advancements in communications and technology evolve so will theAUTSPOT.com. We highly encourage your to sign up and get involved right now.
By joining theAUTSPOT.com you don’t have to scoure the web for that one autism community that caters to you. If you are already apart of one of those communities we encourage you to check out what we have to offer such the ability to geographically targeted any type of autism specialist in your area. That can be found in our recently unlocked Resource section. Along with that theAUTSPOT.com also offers a informational Library where parents can come get answers to questions regarding their child afflicted with autism.
…and finally, be sure to follow us on Twitter @autblog http://twitter.com/autblog
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Thanks so much for this website. I’m not sure if my input is important but I am an autistic adult and I am most interested in what is going on with handling autism. So far, though, I have been greatly discouraged by the lack of focus on separating genetic based autism from other symptoms. I believe that “true” autism should not be “cured” but celebrated for the value that “true” autistics can have to society.