Facebook: Give peace a poke
One of the charts from Facebook showing friend connections across conflict zones.
(Credit: Facebook)Facebook's executives have been saying for a long time that they believe they've built something that can make the world a better place. And now they've launched a hub for that, called "Peace on Facebook."
"Facebook is proud to play a part in promoting peace by building technology that helps people better understand each other," the site explains. "By enabling people from diverse backgrounds to easily connect and share their ideas, we can decrease world conflict in the short and long term."
It appears to be part of something launching from a group affiliated with Stanford University on Tuesday night, called "Peace Dot," and other Web companies will be announced as partners soon.
Right now, it consists primarily of some links to anti-violence activist groups, charts showing Facebook friend connections made between people across ethnic and religious groups with a history of conflict, polls about the viability of world peace, and a "Share Your Thoughts" widget--basically, one of the status update widgets that Facebook rolled out a few months ago.
There's also a link back to Facebook for Good, the nonprofit initiative that the social network launched when it hit 200 million active users around the world this spring.
Facebook's promotes its role in global affairs regularly: it launched a variety of media and voter-registration partnerships during the 2008 presidential elections, for example, and rushed out a translated version of its site in the Farsi language amid reports that it had become an organizing point for activists in the Iranian political crisis this summer.
Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and brewing cappuccinos. E-mail Caroline. 
Another idiotic "movement" and another idiotic article about same.
There's nothing more frustrating than to live in the same street with youngsters who abuse their freedom, use drugs, violate the law, drive 100kmh in a 35kmh zone, play loud music that interrupts the neighbors, throw their trash on the streets (and at times their needles), destroy government property which the citizen needs to pay for, do not pay attention in class, are rebellious, stab teachers and public transport personnel with needles or knives, pull emergency brakes on public transport vehicles just because they missed their stop (because they where showing off, and not paying attention) and have to walk 3 minutes in the opposite direction from the next stop, are loud on their cellphones; that people in the front of a bus or tram can hear them all the way from the back!
Now you tell me why a person can not get angry with such unlearned individuals, who even refuse to get educated themselves?
Not even mentioning the heavier crimes many commit like drugs traffic, rape, occasional murder, brutal meaningless violence to elderly and women,...
If you look at the facts there are people out there that have committed all of the above, and even more!
Now you tell me why the innocent civilian, who minds his own business, goes to work every day, and is a victim of these crimes, needs to live in peace with such an individual?
I wish this post could get to higher court, because it's the reality!
What's worse is that these guys, when caught, get released 3 years later only to continue where they left before!
Because of their record. It's already hard to get a job for a regular citizen, now imagine a person with a criminal record!
That person will continue to do the things he knows for survival.. And if the crimes are light, for the sake of feeding his children things could be eased up on him,
But most of them don't do it to feed children! They do it because they want to be cool, have lots of money to buy a crazy expensive car without really working for it!
As if that car is going to help them somehow in their lives...
People need to learn humbleness, and pride is disgusting; and try to be a harmless, good civilians with the heart to do good to others, instead of evil!
The middle east, and Africa is full of wars and internal conflicts.
- by October 29, 2009 11:22 AM PDT
- Be sure to check out other peacedot sites, such as: peace.care2.com
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