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Isn’t it telling how we’ve shifted in our terminology over time?
What we used to call social networking has now become social media.
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"It puzzles me how many people still believe ‘friendship’ or at least bonhomie conducted in cyberspace isn’t a valuable form of social contact, but, say, being thrown together at an NCT group, or in halls of residence, or because your desks at work face on to each other, is. Or that anodyne small talk with a neighbour is ‘genuine social stimulation,’ whereas chatting over Twitter with someone 6,000 miles away who loves Top Gun and Jefferson Airplane as much as you do is just lonely, dysfunctional nerds clashing in cyberspace. This, to my mind, is idiotic. It’s time for us all to come out of the closet about our secret internet chums."
- Grace Dent, How to Leave Twitter(Source: pitcherplant, via hanuueshe)
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Very very interesting video about the Social Media Revolution. A must see. Amazing how social media is changing the world, our relationships, business and our lives in such a fast pace. Good or Bad?
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Saudi women use Facebook and Twitter to fight for equal rights
A group of women in Saudi Arabia banded together to form a movement seeking to end the country’s discriminatory laws particularly male guardianship.
The Saudi Women Revolution, made up mostly of young university-educated women, was started as a Facebook page and a discussion topic on Twitter in February, by Nuha Al Sulaiman.
Read more here: http://goo.gl/61jZLHere’s praying/hoping “The Saudi Women Revolution” takes off and is successful - there’s already been efforts by the admirable women of Saudi Arabia to claim their vote and to fight the indefensible driving ban.
Their rights are long overdue - not only by virtue of our faith’s true teachings (against a warped regressive Saudi-manipulated doctrine), but by also by any global notion of equality and justice.
(via stfuislamobigotry)
do i dare disturb the universe?
