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Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Written by Roger McNamee, an early investor in Facebook
Quote from the book
“This is a story about power. It describes how even the best of ideas , in the hands of people with good intentions, can still go terribly wrong……..I think the day will come sooner than I ever imagined when the world will recognise that the value users receive from the Facebook dominated social media/attention economy revolution masked an unmitigated disaster for our democracy, for public health, for personal privacy, and for the economy.”
Whilst I am a regular user of Facebook, I have to agree with that quote. It can be a great medium for communication when used properly but, like all things, it can also be a deadly place when used badly. It is a sad fact of our age that the wonder tool 'the internet' is not as wonderful as first envisaged.
Experience is not what happens to you;
it is what you do with what happens to you.
-Aldous Huxley
Many of my friends here tell me they 'don't do Facebook' for various reasons. However it can be quite useful at times, and this site details many of the organisations, like ARCE, Oriental Institute,...
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Thanks, Stan. I've added the site owner as a Facebook friend (I need all the friends I can get) and will check out the links he lists.
Upon the request of many MPs in a plenary session on Monday, the speaker of Egypt's parliament Ali Abdel-Al said that there should be new legislation aimed at prosecuting certain users on Facebook...
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Parents who allow their children unlimited and unsupervised access to the internet do their offspring no service.
It's not just Facebook either. Plenty of time-wasting trivia on the internet...
The latest dotty idea to be discussed in Parliament
ByThink MarketingPublished on April 16, 2017
Egyptian Members of Parliament are proposing a new bill to require social media users in Egypt to...
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If they ever decided to peek at my FB page, they would be dead from shear boredom withing moments. :lol: I only pretend to live in Luxor, I'm actually in a cryogenic chamber in Scotland with my still...