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1. I am a computer-illiterate old man (82 years old).

2. The only thing I know about Facebook, for example, is that it's a platform where some young people have posted vile comments about acquaintances and where some controversial political topics are now banned.


3. Last night, however, I discovered that Facebook can also be used for good.



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4. I was reading the July, 2019, print edition of Reader's Digest. I came across an article entitled "The Global Network" by Derek Burnett.


a. Two American tourists were in Indonesia.

b. They traveled into the jungle.

c. They had an accident, which resulted in their being so wounded that they could not walk.

d. One had a cell phone. (Thank God for that invention!)

e. He sent out this message on Facebook: "Help. In danger. Call police."


f. One of his friends in the States saw the message. She started the ball rolling. There was "a chain reaction of 516 concerned posts from [his many] friends around the world."


g. In about four hours, a rescue party arrived to take them to the hospital.



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5. Currently, many people are seriously wondering if the Internet is more of a curse than a blessing.


a. In my opinion, the answer is a no-brainer.
 
Communication (the internet) is a very powerful tool. Like a gun, it can both take lives, and save them. Like the poppy flower, it can be the instrument of both salvation and ruin.

Its all up to the particular human in using it.
 
given your status as an old man, i can forgive you for being technologically illiterate, but not for throwing around silly and harmful rhetoric like generalizing social media as "a platform where some young people have posted vile comments about acquaintances and where some controversial political topics are now banned."

ah, yes, like the town square in ye olde days. imagine, gathering people together results in more possibility of bad things - the more people, the higher the chance.

The Internet, and social media, have massively increased the ability to communicate with each other or obtain information or learn about events. In some places, Facebook, Twitter, and encrypted messaging apps are literally the only ways people can coordinate against or within their corrupt governments.
 
1. I am a computer-illiterate old man (82 years old).

2. The only thing I know about Facebook, for example, is that it's a platform where some young people have posted vile comments about acquaintances and where some controversial political topics are now banned.


3. Last night, however, I discovered that Facebook can also be used for good.



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4. I was reading the July, 2019, print edition of Reader's Digest. I came across an article entitled "The Global Network" by Derek Burnett.


a. Two American tourists were in Indonesia.

b. They traveled into the jungle.

c. They had an accident, which resulted in their being so wounded that they could not walk.

d. One had a cell phone. (Thank God for that invention!)

e. He sent out this message on Facebook: "Help. In danger. Call police."


f. One of his friends in the States saw the message. She started the ball rolling. There was "a chain reaction of 516 concerned posts from [his many] friends around the world."


g. In about four hours, a rescue party arrived to take them to the hospital.



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5. Currently, many people are seriously wondering if the Internet is more of a curse than a blessing.


a. In my opinion, the answer is a no-brainer.

>>Sarcasm alert.... Many people complain that Nazi Germany was a terrible place. They started a war, they destroyed countless cities, they caused the deaths of tens of millions of people.

But then, there was this one thing that happened before a lot of the bad stuff. They built a national highway system that cut many minutes off of a commute from one place to another(granted, it's primary purpose was to enable rapid military and government transportation across the country). That wonderful road system made it possible for the ambulance to reach uncle Siegfried 7 minutes faster than usual, after he sprained his ankle by tripping over a branch in General Erich Georg Sebastian Anton Von Falkenhayn memorial park.

So, like Facebook, many people also think that Nazi Germany is more of a curse than a blessing.

But as with Facebook, if we look really hard, the answer is a no brainer.

They BOTH SUCK....

There's actually a host of reasons why Facebook is so lousy. There's the fact that it's basically redundant and unnecessary, but they still FORCE YOU to open an account with them, just to visit the Facebook account of a company who you are considering doing business with. Then there's the private data that conveniently seems to end up 'stolen'.

But the worst of all, is the incredibly problematic attempts by its political partisan CEO to use his platform for the purposes of aiding 1 political party in their attempts to create a power monopoly in our country, by working together with all the other big (leftist)social media and internet information companies to censor anti-leftist dissent, and to disseminate pro-leftist partisan propaganda. The social media companies(and the news media) are the closest things to Pravda that America has ever witnessed.
 
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The social media companies(and the news media) are the closest things to Pravda that America has ever witnessed.

Very thought-provoking comment.

How the media gleefully pile on a certain gentleman in the White House does, indeed, lower its credibility.
 
1. I am a computer-illiterate old man (82 years old).

2. The only thing I know about Facebook, for example, is that it's a platform where some young people have posted vile comments about acquaintances and where some controversial political topics are now banned.


3. Last night, however, I discovered that Facebook can also be used for good.



*****



4. I was reading the July, 2019, print edition of Reader's Digest. I came across an article entitled "The Global Network" by Derek Burnett.


a. Two American tourists were in Indonesia.

b. They traveled into the jungle.

c. They had an accident, which resulted in their being so wounded that they could not walk.

d. One had a cell phone. (Thank God for that invention!)

e. He sent out this message on Facebook: "Help. In danger. Call police."


f. One of his friends in the States saw the message. She started the ball rolling. There was "a chain reaction of 516 concerned posts from [his many] friends around the world."


g. In about four hours, a rescue party arrived to take them to the hospital.



*****


5. Currently, many people are seriously wondering if the Internet is more of a curse than a blessing.


a. In my opinion, the answer is a no-brainer.


I taught my dad to use Facebook and now he can't stop. The groups are the biggest thing, allowing him to connect to similar people with similar interests.
 
e:. He sent out this message on Facebook: "Help. In danger. Call police."

Why couldn't they have just called for help? If they connected to the Internet they obviously had a signal..
 
1. I am a computer-illiterate old man (82 years old).

2. The only thing I know about Facebook, for example, is that it's a platform where some young people have posted vile comments about acquaintances and where some controversial political topics are now banned.


3. Last night, however, I discovered that Facebook can also be used for good.



*****



4. I was reading the July, 2019, print edition of Reader's Digest. I came across an article entitled "The Global Network" by Derek Burnett.


a. Two American tourists were in Indonesia.

b. They traveled into the jungle.

c. They had an accident, which resulted in their being so wounded that they could not walk.

d. One had a cell phone. (Thank God for that invention!)

e. He sent out this message on Facebook: "Help. In danger. Call police."


f. One of his friends in the States saw the message. She started the ball rolling. There was "a chain reaction of 516 concerned posts from [his many] friends around the world."


g. In about four hours, a rescue party arrived to take them to the hospital.



*****


5. Currently, many people are seriously wondering if the Internet is more of a curse than a blessing.


a. In my opinion, the answer is a no-brainer.

Your story makes me thankful for a couple things, but FB isn't one of them. I'm also envious about one thing.

1. That guy has cell service in the jungles of Indonesia, yet when I travel 20 miles into the mountains of Colorado I have nothing. That sucks big time. :(

2. There are hundreds, if not hundreds of thousands, of platforms on the internet that could have given that guy a support mechanism. Heck, DP members could have saved him, too. So don't thank FB. Thank the internet. Thank cell phones. Thank the people who took action.

3. I'm thankful things turned out well for that guy.
 
given your status as an old man, i can forgive you for being technologically illiterate, but not for throwing around silly and harmful rhetoric like generalizing social media as "a platform where some young people have posted vile comments about acquaintances and where some controversial political topics are now banned."

ah, yes, like the town square in ye olde days. imagine, gathering people together results in more possibility of bad things - the more people, the higher the chance.

The Internet, and social media, have massively increased the ability to communicate with each other or obtain information or learn about events. In some places, Facebook, Twitter, and encrypted messaging apps are literally the only ways people can coordinate against or within their corrupt governments.

Well, that's mostly true, unless you are attempting to disseminate facts that are inconvenient to the democratic party, or truths that undermine the cultural Marxist propaganda that society is increasingly being indoctrinated with. In those cases, you are likely to be 'punished', by having your account closed temporarily or permanently.

The big tech companies are very clearly becoming the authoritarian, book-burning censors of the modern era. If you post information that doesn't tow their Marxist party line, then your posts will likely be hit with their inconsistent, politically motivated "hate speech" label that they use to justify censoring dissent. In the mean time, they turn a blind eye to hyper-partisan left wing producers who regularly insult people, push conspiracy theories, and directly call for violence!


But if you are a moderate conservative or even a traditional liberal who dares criticize their unconstitutional policies, they'll claim you are promoting "radicalism", simply because you oppose THEIR radicalism. In the mean time, the left are attempting to set legal precedents for denying free speech. Given time, all social and news media will become state run Marxist propaganda mills, and obviously they are already well on their way!
 
Well, that's mostly true, unless you are attempting to disseminate facts that are inconvenient to the democratic party, or truths that undermine the cultural Marxist propaganda that society is increasingly being indoctrinated with. In those cases, you are likely to be 'punished', by having your account closed temporarily or permanently.

The big tech companies are very clearly becoming the authoritarian, book-burning censors of the modern era. If you post information that doesn't tow their Marxist party line, then your posts will likely be hit with their inconsistent, politically motivated "hate speech" label that they use to justify censoring dissent. In the mean time, they turn a blind eye to hyper-partisan left wing producers who regularly insult people, push conspiracy theories, and directly call for violence!


But if you are a moderate conservative or even a traditional liberal who dares criticize their unconstitutional policies, they'll claim you are promoting "radicalism", simply because you oppose THEIR radicalism. In the mean time, the left are attempting to set legal precedents for denying free speech. Given time, all social and news media will become state run Marxist propaganda mills, and obviously they are already well on their way!

You're wrong, and your worldview is either based on the brainwashing of conservative media or just having no idea what you're talking about.

The big tech companies have individual employees who are left-leaning and even SJW-ish in nature, but the companies themselves are largely just capitalist structures that only care about their bottom line. There are constantly left-leaning or even just apolitical pages that touch on politics or religion or something that get banned or demonetized.

If you were to wonder why the most harsh punishments fall on the right-leaning pages / channels, it's because they're literally hate speech. Don't call for the deaths of the people you disagree with, don't call for literally removing the rights of people you don't like.
 
About time to wish everybody "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" on FB! :)
And don't forget to show a picture of your Christmas dinner! :lamo
 
e:. He sent out this message on Facebook: "Help. In danger. Call police."

Why couldn't they have just called for help? If they connected to the Internet they obviously had a signal..

He considered it but didn't know where they were as they had wrecked a scooter in the middle of the night. What he did was post that comment, a friend saw it a couple minutes later and called him through facebook and then he shared his location through GPS via facebook. Ironic thing was so many people started responding and posting, it almost killed his cell battery, taking it from 40% to 6%. Article is here: PressReader.com - Your favorite newspapers and magazines.
 
3. Last night, however, I discovered that Facebook can also be used for good.



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4. I was reading the July, 2019, print edition of Reader's Digest. I came across an article entitled "The Global Network" by Derek Burnett.


a. Two American tourists were in Indonesia.

b. They traveled into the jungle.

c. They had an accident, which resulted in their being so wounded that they could not walk.

d. One had a cell phone. (Thank God for that invention!)

e. He sent out this message on Facebook: "Help. In danger. Call police."


f. One of his friends in the States saw the message. She started the ball rolling. There was "a chain reaction of 516 concerned posts from [his many] friends around the world."


g. In about four hours, a rescue party arrived to take them to the hospital.



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5. Currently, many people are seriously wondering if the Internet is more of a curse than a blessing.


It is only now that I have read this!
 
My daughter tells me Instagram is the thing now...I wouldn't know, I don't do either FB or IG...:2razz:
 
My daughter tells me Instagram is the thing now...I wouldn't know, I don't do either FB or IG...:2razz:

And I think when one gets around to Instagramm, those clever millenials have already left it and are on to something "cooler".

It is like the race between hedgehog and hare.
 
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