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How did you decide that social networking is "merely a distraction", and yet games "have the ability to give people joy and escape"? > I might be too idealist.
by lbrandy 18y ago
How did you decide that social networking is "merely a distraction", and yet games "have the ability to give people joy and escape"?
> I might be too idealist.
Are you really?
If you really and truly want to have a net positive effect on society, write some open-source software and contribute it to the FOSS community. Aim for things that will help others, e.g. for the 100$ laptop program.
- jcromartie 18y ago> write some open-source software and contribute it to the FOSS community The only problem I see with FOSS is that a very very tiny portion of people, as a whole, will ever actually use it. Perhaps if it lead to cost savings for municipal governments that helps to pay for social programs? > the 100$ laptop program. I was going to mention that, but it has been usurped by Microsoft and real benefit has yet to be seen.
- lbrandy 18y ago> The only problem I see with FOSS is that a very very tiny portion of people, as a whole, will ever actually use it. Or more precisely, only a very very tiny portion of the people will ever actually knowingly use it. How much of the internet utilizes the linux kernel? or Apache? Or MySql? or gcc/gdb/glibc? The impact of a single significant gcc change reverberates all over the computing world.
- narag 18y agoI'd say people that uses Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice or eMule does know what they're using.
- paulgb 18y agoI think social networking gets a bad reputation because it has become a bit of a buzzword applied to any application that tries to cash in on the "social" trend. The real value of social networking is huge, but the message is lost in the noise of zombie bite applications and myspace profiles.