I first joined facebook years ago when I saw a NYT article describing how a Mother of a teen had discovered the website and joined so she could continue to relate to her daughter. At that time fb was aimed only at students. (The daughter refused to 'friend' her Mother, but many of the daughter's friends did so)
After experiencing the joy of membership I adopted a blogger screen name as ONE WORLD NOW because I saw (as in visionary) that as a real possibility through the Internet and especially facebook.
Then Mark Zuckerberg got rich (The Accidental Billionaires). Facebook became a kind of mercenary monster with a Harvard degree, and membership was opened to all people, every sex, most ages, many sizes, corporate entities, celebrities of every "stripe" and even myself, again - (after having been 'decapitated' - fb calls it 'disabled' three times and finally banned for life - for "violations of our terms of service' - meaning not contributing adequately to and/or endangering their bottom line.
I think I should have chosen the screen name: ONE WORLD LATER
. . and it's not yet even Hallowe'en . .
ReplyDeletecriticism is (obviously) only for judges, but "All have sinned and come short of the Glory of God" by taking the 'knowledge of good and evil' into our own forbidden hands and judging up storm after storm on a minute by minute basis.
ReplyDeleteSooo, all things considered, as PBS would say, facebook provided an historic opportunity and its members (pardon the expression) are rising to the occasion (a thousand pardons for this one)
It is a noticably better world already, and we have not yet begun to fight. (sorry)
in conclusion, I can only say that if this were not my blog I would certainly change the name?
IF YOU READ THIS TOMORROW (right)please makea comment, and BE MY VALENTINE! XXX
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