World Youth Day organizers, who are expecting more than 2 million participants, are preparing for the 2011 event in Madrid with Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and fundraisers using text messages.
Social networking sites have been key outlets "for raising awareness, mobilizing, communicating and financing World Youth Day," said Auxiliary Bishop Cesar Franco Martinez of Madrid, who is the general coordinator of the Aug. 16-21 international event.
Bishop Franco and others spoke Oct. 5 at a Vatican news conference on the preparations involved in next year's gathering.
Maria de Jaureguizar, vice director of communications for World Youth Day 2011, said, "It will be a WYD that is fully immersed in the Internet, the place where young people today meet."
"All information and all promotional materials can be found on the official website," www.madrid11.com, interested participants can plan and "interact" on special pages and accounts organizers have set up on a variety of social networking sites, she said.
As of Oct. 5, there were more than 165,000 fans of World Youth Day on Facebook,
World Youth Day organizers, who are expecting more than 2 million participants, are preparing for the 2011 event in Madrid with Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and fundraisers using text messages.
Social networking sites have been key outlets "for raising awareness, mobilizing, communicating and financing World Youth Day," said Auxiliary Bishop Cesar Franco Martinez of Madrid, who is the general coordinator of the Aug. 16-21 international event.
Bishop Franco and others spoke Oct. 5 at a Vatican news conference on the preparations involved in next year's gathering.
Maria de Jaureguizar, vice director of communications for World Youth Day 2011, said, "It will be a WYD that is fully immersed in the Internet, the place where young people today meet."
"All information and all promotional materials can be found on the official website," www.madrid11.com, interested participants can plan and "interact" on special pages and accounts organizers have set up on a variety of social networking sites, she said.
As of Oct. 5, there were more than 165,000 fans of World Youth Day on Facebook.
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