Responding to comments McBreen had made about off-grid preppers being treated as criminals, the “Facebook Team” wrote,READ MORE“Be careful making about making political statements on facebook,”adding,“Facebook is about building relationships not a platform for your political viewpoint. Don’t antagonize your base. Be careful and congnizat (sic) of what you are preaching.”
...the insidious trap I discuss in my First Things piece — the trap so many of us at one time or another find ourselves struggling to get out of, where we are caught up in the whirlwind of politics (so much of which is illusory) and into thinking that we must, we must, we must, keep breathlessly posting on Facebook; that the nation’s fate depends upon us not stopping to consider (or to pray, or to even think) but simply remaining in the spin of the storm, until we lose sight of everything, including the humanity of others, or the damage we may be causing that was never our willful intent.This is scary because I've felt it...I've seen it...and her advice is critical for our bodily health and our souls (comes just in time for a lot of us):
...some of us are simply nourishing our ideologies—holding them close to the heart and feeding them on our stores of distrust and bitterness—and allowing them to steal all of our instincts to charity, to squeeze out mercy. You can see it on social media, most especially on Facebook where respectable, even admirable, people are beginning to lose perspective and attack each other over news stories, and sometimes over simple questions, reasonably asked. Where angry banning won’t do, full-scale attacks are launched in the form of threads full of red-meat, wherein “friends” are invited to feed, so the hatred may grow.
And it is all done in service to a sad illusion that somehow, if we do not post every story that makes us angry or proves our point, if we do not constantly attempt to fix the erroneous thinking of others, this election will fall out of our control. [Emphasis mine.] We must be aggressive unto hysteria in our righteousness, or the other side will win.
Facebook will lose dominance as a major web company in less than a decade, Eric Jackson, founder of Ironfire Capital said Monday on CNBC's Squawk on the Street.Facebook Will Disappear in 5 to 8 Years: Analyst
"In five to eight years they are going to disappear in the way that Yahoo has disappeared," Jackson said. "Yahoo is still making money, it's still profitable, still has 13,000 employees working for it, but it's 10 percent of the value that it was at the height of 2000. For all intents and purposes, it's disappeared."
Jackson said there have been three generations of web companies. . .
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And then there is the new darling of the Left, George Soros-buddy, CNN commentator and Obama advisor Fareed Zakaria. This America-hating clown has built his career with a silver tongue that spouts endless elitist Constitution-bashing.Update on the the fundamental transformation of our country from The Neville Awards: Progressives' Assault on the Constitution as Obama's Poll Numbers Crater
His latest idea is that we should follow Iceland's lead and scrap the law of the land and replace it with a document built on "suggestions" from Twitter and Facebook users.
...but because they dedicate so much of that time using more than one medium at once - say, scanning Facebook as they listen to music and chat with friends - they actually pack in about 10 hours and 45 minutes of content in that period.Read the whole thing
That's up considerably from just five years earlier, when kids spent six hours and 21 minutes squeezing in eight hours and 33 minutes of content.
Oh, and assuming our sources prove accurate, this explains the timing of the Google/Facebook slap fight over contact information.
Alias Barack Obama: a lie is born: The greatest identity fraud in history Paperback – July 10, 2012
