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?

2 comments:

  1. that's jokes.... they think they can affect facebook by deleting their accounts. That is pretty stupid. hahah... "movement"

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