Friday, January 15, 2010

the information age

Is facebook, twitter, or myspace, really that usefull or enjoyable, that billions of people need to use it everyday? Some people shape their lives around facebook. They feel as if joining a group means something, it makes them a better person if they join a group about not killing dolphins, and really joining a group on facebook means absolutely nothing. Instead of joining all the stupid groups you can find on facebook, you could be doing something meaninfull. But aside from negatives, there are some positives.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/HaitiEarthquake/hope-support-haiti-click/story?id=9554022

Facebook does provide some usefull information, and because it is used so often it is a great thing we have social sites like these. Facebook and twitter allowed family members from haiti to contact each other through facebook, and twitter to let them know they were all right, in addition to providing information about how they can help what happened in haiti as shown in the link above. As stupid as some of the stuff is on this sites and how annoying they are sometimes, we need them and its very important in getting information out.

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