It is not only in northern Africa that Facebook has flooded societies and changed prerequisites for democracy – or dictatorships. According to a recent study from Socialbakers, Africa is the most dynamic continent on Facebook, gaining more than 50 % of its Facebook users in the last 6 months!

This means that Africa today has around 8.3 million users. The country with top number of rising Facebook users on the continent is not, as might be expected, Egypt. It is Nigeria. With 1.4 million new users, they account for an increase of 83 % during the last six months alone! Just imagine what would happen if Nigerians start to communicate the need for an uprising against the corrupt government, in a land that is already a tinderbox.