For the same reason I don’t use email with family and friends when I’ve been drinking (…anymore… :-\ ) people with a temper or who are power-mad shouldn’t use services like Twitter, umm, ever…
We are dealing with a tantrum of global proportions, because the future of FB is more tied to this then they would have you believe. A lot of smaller countries trust India, their kind of big brother in the developing world. Not only that, FB’s bullsh!t is now more transparent than ever. Also note what is going on in more enlightened European countries too.
Facebook pushed hard on this for a good reason…it is super-important to them. And Andreeson knows this and became emotionally tied to…to money! The root of all evil.
They even made a video of my year in retrospect for me and invited me to share it. They remind me of anniversaries of random posts.
To paraphrase Douglas Adams, facebook is my “software pal who’s fun to be with!”
This line of thinking would carry more weight if the immigrants that the right despise so much also happened to be executives from international corporations worth billions of dollars. Alas, they just seem to be the same caste of poor people that they ignore everywhere else, too.
You don’t even know what “ad hominem” means. It means attacking a person rather than an argument they are making. They are describing behaviour, not refuting an argument.
Yes, I was thinking that this list describes well what’s happening in the U.S. too. What’s it called when what amount to colonial processes also happen within the seat of empire?
ride in like the savior
bandy about words like equality, democracy, basic rights
mask the long-term profit motive (see 2 above)
justify the logic of partial dissemination as better than nothing
partner with local elites and vested interests
accuse the critics of ingratitude
That’s happening perhaps most blatantly in Michigan, but also in Wisconsin, Illinois and other states. Republican governors get elected on anti-gov platforms and proceed to work with other greedy business men to degrade and dismantle public institutions and services, all in the name of “cutting government waste” and “saving taxes.” And all for the supposed, Orwellian sake of yes, “equality, democracy and basic rights.” And Democrats like Obama and the Clintons seem pretty much okay with it all; they’ll get theirs, so screw the rest of us.
