There were two recent posts that offered ideas on how social media can help the world and do more than promote lolcats, Apple, and anti-Palin stories.

• A Plan for Social Media Sites (and Users) to Give Back
• With Great Social Media Power Comes Great Responsibility

The idea is simple. Social media sites send a lot of traffic to web pages across the Internet. There should be a way that these sites can send more traffic to pages that are trying to do right in the world. Causes, charities, and information about the two can find their way onto these social media sites and do more than promote the latest post on Huffington Post or Torrent Freak.

It just makes sense.

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