Peace.facebook.com
peace.facebook.com
Peace.facebook.com
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#21.) Was engaging and interesting at startup school? Check.
2.) Cool company initiative that I can respect? Check.
I think Zuckerberg might finally be growing into his own. :)
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#3In other facebook news everyone in my freshman level class spends the whole lecture on facebook on their computer and is very surprising to me that the teacher doesnt ban computers from the classroom. ( When I started 2 years ago no one even pulled out computers during lectures unless they were at the back of the room. )
Maybe facebook is planning world peace through extended computer use.
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#4In other facebook news everyone in my freshman level class spends the whole lecture on facebook on their computer and is very surprising to me that the teacher doesnt ban computers from the classroom. ( When I started 2 years ago no one even pulled out computers during lectures unless they were at the back of the room. ) Maybe facebook is planning world peace through extended computer use.
We can't fight any more wars if we're all too busy circlejerking on each others' walls.
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#5In other facebook news everyone in my freshman level class spends the whole lecture on facebook on their computer and is very surprising to me that the teacher doesnt ban computers from the classroom. ( When I started 2 years ago no one even pulled out computers during lectures unless they were at the back of the room. ) Maybe facebook is planning world peace through extended computer use.
We can't fight any more wars if we're all too busy circlejerking on each others' walls.
Maybe, but we can still fight plenty of mob wars that way.
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#6The funny thing about this is that Facebook leads to the exact opposite of peace among groups of people. There's massive amounts of social anxiety associated with your virtual prominence amongst your friends, even if you see them in-person on a regular basis.
Since I've quit using Facebook, etc I have noticed a massive improvement in the quality of my interactions with friends. They actually bother asking how I'm doing / what I'm up to, and I'm genuinely curious about their recent experiences.
I'm actually convinced that this global obsession with social networks could lead to more wars than peace -- the current generation of Internet trolls seem like a mere precursor of what's to come. People really take this virtual shit seriously -- doesn't that seem just the slightest bit scary, when coupled with natural youthful aggression?
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#7After seeing MZ at startup school, it was apparent that he is a big thinker. I didn't think this big though. Brilliant!
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#8Isn't it also possible that facebook could be used for the promotion of hate? An obvious and outstanding recent example was the recent quiz about whether the U.S. president should be killed. If you read about the balkans, (and more recently iraq) what is shocking is how quickly cultures with cross-ethnic/religous connections - even those as strong as intermarriage can quickly become polarized into bitter enemies. Which makes me wonder what these graphs of israel/palestine friendships will look like when tensions again escalate between these two groups. What did the india/pakistan graph look like after the Mumbai bombings?
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#9The funny thing about this is that Facebook leads to the exact opposite of peace among groups of people. There's massive amounts of social anxiety associated with your virtual prominence amongst your friends, even if you see them in-person on a regular basis. Since I've quit using Facebook, etc I have noticed a massive improvement in the quality of my interactions with friends. They actually bother asking how I'm doi…
I disagree. Seeing people use something that you use but who live in a completely different place and have very different lives is a really enlightening thing.
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#10In other facebook news everyone in my freshman level class spends the whole lecture on facebook on their computer and is very surprising to me that the teacher doesnt ban computers from the classroom. ( When I started 2 years ago no one even pulled out computers during lectures unless they were at the back of the room. ) Maybe facebook is planning world peace through extended computer use.
Maybe they were doing puzzles in the newspaper instead and it was harder to notice. Computers are just a more visible mode of distraction.