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How Facebook is Breeding a Country of Intolerance and Extremism – NOT Bringing Us Together
May 7, 2010
Can you figure out the next word in this series?
- Good. Bad. Right. Wrong. Left. Right. Like. _____
Excellent! Now, let’s look at some numbers. (Quick caveat: this is quick math.)
- The USA has an estimated population of 308 Million.
- Of these, roughly 250 Million are 14-95.
- Facebook has 400 Million users world-wide.
- 70% are outside of the US, leaving us with 120 Million Americans.
- That’s darn near 40% of our population – or 2 out of every 5 Americans for those of you preferential to chewing gum commercials.
- If we look at these by age ranges, I have a hunch that this ratio will creep closer to 50% - or 1 out of every 2 for those of us between the ages of 15 and 40.
- If anyone can find Facebook data on US members by the same age groups, I’ll do the math.
Now let me go back to that word series. On one hand, I want to fill in “Dislike” and start on a rant of how Facebook is perpetuating the teenage fallacy that the world, choices and judgments are black and white. And that our opinions are facts. And there is no room for savoring chocolate or appreciating nuance. That there is only Like and Dislike.
Facebook Friendly
March 16, 2010
Aside from my opinion that Facebook is on the verge of being (or already is) too crowded with junk that it’ll soon be unlikely that anything one “shares” will even be seen, I’m diving into the wonderful world of making web sites Facebook Friendly.
Collective + Collaboration = Freedom
February 14, 2010
Now that I stare at my laptop, all thoughts have escaped me. It’s been a LONG time since I’ve put myself out there in the public domain. For the past decade I’ve worked (not so) silently behind the scenes, absorbing corporate and startup politics, starting businesses, expiring businesses, making other people rich(er) and discovering that I love learning how other people perceive and process the world. It’s this perception (and I won’t bore you with a diatribe into relativity vs objectivity) that’s driving my latest project: a collective of freelancers and small, startup agencies across several industries.