Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Oh lawd, another internet movement

Upon reading this hilarious article which attempts to amount to something important. I couldn't help but feel giddy with the lack of understanding some people have of how things work. First, the Internet accomplishes nothing ; unless /b/ does something. A summarization of the article is a list consisting of Facebook's three "#ZUCKUPS". The author also decides to instigate a movement against Facebook in hopes of demolishing its user count.
      "The first major #ZUCKUP was the commercialization of friendship. The second disturbing #ZUCKUP was the remorseless pursuit of privacy-invasive technologies. The third #ZUCKUP, the one that will be remembered as the final nail in Facebook's coffin, is the cynical attempt to stand in the way of history by blocking the people's worldwide movement toward self-governance and democracy...

Let us now kill Facebook with this #ZUCKUP campaign. Pull your allegiance, delete your account and watch for the day that Facebook implodes spectacularly." - Adbusters

Even though the "nail in Facebook's coffin" was the result of a page which "comments had deteriorated into direct calls for violence against Israel and Jews"-Source     Facebook is justified for it's actions for deleting the page. In any case a collective of persons who are all within the state of mind for violence upon any community should be halted or shut-down by the webmasters.

This of course brings up the next topic : can the Internet really be a sanctuary for a virtual revolution? Is it possible to spark a phenomenon so enticing that it causes a social uproar leading to change in the physical world?

The guy who knew too little

I never did see the point in voting. Not once have I have been shown the holy aura surrounding diplomatic ballet boxes. For me voting seemed like a mild distraction from current task's at hand, and I've never payed attention to it. For some it seems to be all the rage, as they engulf as much information as possible for when can they cast their vote in the current election.
I don't think I've ever researched for an election, or even bothered to pay attention to it as campaign ad's play next to the days weather report. I know little to nothing about this election other than ; two parties are competing, while a resilient third party tries really hard to be noticed and yet after years of trying : no one cares. Issues that concern me are the pay-rolls of the people involved and the costs of an election and how much parties spend on advertising and marketing.