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            Santa’s sleigh is no longer powered by soft and cuddly reindeer, instead it soars through the night sky with anti-gravity technology and three giant rocket boosters. Traditions, like holidays, are the ideas, beliefs, and objects passed down by our ancestors and kept alive by the succeeding generations. Those traditions evolve, mutate, fade away, and are reborn again through the perception of each new generation. Advancements in technology have become the molding blocks of tradition, giving shape to their future and place within society. With the advancements made in communication’s technologies came a new world known as cyberspace, and it is here that the traditional means of communication changed forever.

            As a result, cyberspace placed the power to communicate to billions of people world wide at the fingertips of every living person. Domains such as .com, .net, and .org house billions of web pages that act as the communication and information centers of the world. The tradition of communicating now exists on a much larger scale by evolving from hand delivered mail and newspapers to instant status updates and “tweets”. The term “tweet” refers to each singular communication posted on the web site known as Twitter.com. It is here that upcoming generations share their personal feelings and ideas with anyone who wishes to follow their daily life. The revolution taking place in Egypt began with mass protests aimed at ousting former president Hosni Mubarak and ended up becoming a revolution of communication felt worldwide.