At this moment (as I type this), it facebook has been down since over an hour worldwide. Viewable, but nothing much else can be done. Talk about being blank 😛 Looks like people need to resort to twitter to speak out their minds. Has the world come to an halt or the other way around?
Let the revolution began! #facebookdown
Since facebook is down, can we get back to liking each other away from keyboard in real life?
Today, what good or harm facebook does (and by extension the Internet) is a rather popular topic apart from themselves.
Like most things in the world, there are many sides to everything and not all are black and white. Here are two articles rather stories which provoke some a lot of thoughts and give quite some insight.
Facebook recently stated in a post of the site’s inability to curb hate speech on the site. While I too very much condemn hate speech and of the sort, in the end on both fronts people tend to overdo it – Those on one side screaming “Freedom of Speech motherfuckers!” and “Order! Order!” at the other. Personally, I think of one stage at front, who really decides who has the right to decide what is what?
The Nameless One 