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From the GeekWire article: "You know, I was at a conference recently where someone said, “Well, do you feel good about what you’re doing?” I turned to this per
by Geekette 14y ago
From the GeekWire article:
"You know, I was at a conference recently where someone said, “Well, do you feel good about what you’re doing?” I turned to this person who is an entrepreneur at a prominent social networking website, and I said, “OK, fine. You’re about people sending little messages to each other and having fun on a social network. How big is your malaria project?” …is Zynga doing God’s work? Is Facebook doing God’s work?"
Nothing quite as rich as sanctimonious shit from a rich scatologist
- dredmorbius 14y agoNot to overstate the value and power of Facebook, Twitter, and Zynga, but FB and Twitter, along with Skype, have played a very significant role in coordinating and communicating between parties engaged in both the Arab Spring (and ongoing) protests and revolutions, as well as the Occupy and Tea Party movements in the US. The US State Department has funded numerous projects to enable and facilitate URL sharing and communications particularly within China and other totalitarian regimes, employing channels including social and gaming platforms to both popularize and piggyback these tools. So, yes, social media can, even if it pains me somewhat to say it on both atheistic and privacy grounds, do God's work.