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So what is Factonista?
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5. Contribute significantly to the expansion, coordination and social/political import and impact of humanism and freethought.
Factonista is about putting people before ideas, reason before superstition, and evidence before faith. It’s about being team players (i.e., putting reason, honesty, civility first), as we can achieve far more in collaboration than in isolation. And it’s about making the most of our creativity, diverse skills and backgrounds to contribute to a collective intelligence that will have influence far and wide.
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Facebook is the new NWO (not the wrestling alliance)
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Check out this map created by Vincenzo Cosenza. It shows that Facebook is the most used social networking site in nearly every country in the world, specifically the west. Even Russia’s top site V Kontakte is basically Facebook.
I think it’s great that social networking isn’t split across many different platforms, even though I’m usually in favour of less centralized control. Facebook, so long as it continues to provide more privacy features, allows what Piere Levy calls “totalization without control.” That is, we can communicate with one another through and around any institutions, so long as they allow Facebook. Now one might counter by saying that having only one major networking site makes it easier for governments to censor them, but I would argue that the easier access by so many others (others without much knowledge of how to use the internet), in so many free countries, outweighs its censorship in few countries, but only if their still remains other more spreadable and tougher to censor forms of social networking, and especially when Facebook can cross-platform with these other forms of social media.
What do you think?
Tags: censorship, facebook, social media
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