Sunday, May 18, 2008
Washington Post: Fledgling Rebellion on Facebook Is Struck Down by Force in Egypt
When I started writing about Facebook, I had to convince people that it wasn't just something kids used. I don't have to do much convincing any more.
Although there are many people who bemoan the changes in Facebook (PARENTS are joining!), we're seeing it and other social networks being used in new ways--not always successfully as the Washington Post article about Egypt shows.
So many substantive groups and apps on Facebook are emerging that I'm not certain we can even see where it will end. Are the days of "what vegetable are you?" over? And maybe that's a good thing. However, the socializing and, yes, just plain fun on Facebook are still there.
And on a personal note (this is a blog, after all), it's just two weeks we think until the Great Day in the North Country (that would be the Adirondacks and Vermont). Unicel, the GSM service owned by Verizon is due to swap customers here with some CDMA customers in Oklahoma. Workers in the local Unicel store confirm that as of June 2 they will be an AT&T store. And we know what that means...iPhone. Those of us with iPhones don't use them much in this region because we dread spending too much time off network and losing our accounts (the stories aren't pleasant). With AT&T, that fear will presumably disappear, and people like me can ditch our two-cell-phone lives. (Anyone want to buy a used Sprint Treo 650?)
Which matters for Facebook because the mobile interface on my account is turned off due to the Sprint pricing structure. Assuming the June 2 date is valid, the mobile interface will be turned on.
Now, I only have to worry about iPhone roaming when traveling to one foreign country, not two. (Although we hear iPhone comes to Canada this summer. And, yes, I know that technically Vermont is not a foreign country, but...)
Although there are many people who bemoan the changes in Facebook (PARENTS are joining!), we're seeing it and other social networks being used in new ways--not always successfully as the Washington Post article about Egypt shows.
So many substantive groups and apps on Facebook are emerging that I'm not certain we can even see where it will end. Are the days of "what vegetable are you?" over? And maybe that's a good thing. However, the socializing and, yes, just plain fun on Facebook are still there.
And on a personal note (this is a blog, after all), it's just two weeks we think until the Great Day in the North Country (that would be the Adirondacks and Vermont). Unicel, the GSM service owned by Verizon is due to swap customers here with some CDMA customers in Oklahoma. Workers in the local Unicel store confirm that as of June 2 they will be an AT&T store. And we know what that means...iPhone. Those of us with iPhones don't use them much in this region because we dread spending too much time off network and losing our accounts (the stories aren't pleasant). With AT&T, that fear will presumably disappear, and people like me can ditch our two-cell-phone lives. (Anyone want to buy a used Sprint Treo 650?)
Which matters for Facebook because the mobile interface on my account is turned off due to the Sprint pricing structure. Assuming the June 2 date is valid, the mobile interface will be turned on.
Now, I only have to worry about iPhone roaming when traveling to one foreign country, not two. (Although we hear iPhone comes to Canada this summer. And, yes, I know that technically Vermont is not a foreign country, but...)
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