 Hi, I'm Naomi Yamamoto. I'm the Minister of Advanced Education for the Province of V.C. Today is International Youth Day. The United Nations has dedicated the theme this year to change our world. That for me means the use of social networking tools. And I'm sure like many of you, you're on Facebook and Twitter. I'm a Twitter fan myself and I'll hope to schedule a tweet that you'll receive today. I hope that you use the social networking tools to enrich your lives and your studies. I use Facebook and other social media to plan my group projects when I have projects to do as a group for classes. That really helps it, I don't know, feel like it's less work and more play. It affords you a lot of opportunities that you might not have had or might not have known about just because of how daunting and how spread out the different social networks I mean in the traditional sense at a university are. Professors are really catching on to social media so some of them will communicate with students via Twitter so you can tweet them a question and they'll tweet you back an answer or they'll have online office hours where you can ask them a question using instant message instead of going to see them in person. I mean not only do students tell you about personal or social events but also events that are academic like I guess side team or class events that are happening and because it's online and it's on something like Facebook you can see that your friends are joining and it becomes more than just some academic event put on by the campus. Obviously these people exist on campus but if you're able to join Facebook groups or Twitter is an excellent way to keep in touch with people or finding people that you might not otherwise know about but who might have very similar goals and aspirations as you do. With social media it's such a global thing if you just put one thing on Twitter it can easily be trending like halfway across the world to somebody over there. So it's a great way to spread ideas and it makes it easier for students to express their opinions and show what they're really feeling and then gain some support for that. I think social media is a tremendous place to organize and it's a tremendous place to share information. It's not necessarily the place that fosters strong social bonds that are necessary to actually change the world but once you're committed to doing it social media is the first place to go because you have it's easily accessible and you just have a wide network of people to spread your message to. I think students can use social media tools to change the world to sort of create their own media and their own news. I think students are becoming their own media sources and less and less people are going to mainstream media and having to worry about if their messages are objective or not. Twitter and Facebook is not limited by geographical boundaries or social ethnic backgrounds or anything like that so it's just another medium for communicating and gives us greater access to people who wouldn't be exposed to our ideas otherwise.