Posted on 04/06/2011 1:23:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's a fairly typical day when Facebook has managed to spark the ire of man--including members of Congress, left and right--over its ever-evolving user privacy policies. Still, the company has managed to avoid pushing user patience to the point where people can't maintain at least a base level of friendship. No significant block of the population has been moved to walk away from the site, much less take to the streets in protest.
But now, fueled by yesterday's news that Facebook will host an online townhall meeting for the President, the company may be courting such a revolt by agitating a segment renowned for mobilizing and voicing their collective anger: modern conservative activists.
It's the latest in a growing far right versus Facebook battle that began when the New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin recently reported that the social media giant was in talks to offer millions to former Obama White House press secretary Robert Gibbs to run its communications operation. The prospect of the move immediately raised eyebrows on the right, exemplified in comments to a post by Mike Riggs on the conservative website the Daily Caller--which also pointed out that Facebook had already hired a number of Obama administration alumni.
"Crackbook would become much less addictive for conservative patriots" if the company hired Gibbs, opined one commenter. Another wrote, "More and more I might end up yanking my profile from facebook as each day goes by."
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Why would anyone want to put their life on Facebook? That's just asking for trouble and sure enough, it looks like they and 0 are working together, and WHAT FOR?
The code to run Facebook isn’t all that difficult. I wonder.
I had a FB account to keep up with my son in the Navy. I yanked it last week when I found out Zuck was trying to hire the idiot Robt. Gibbs.
I’ll have to tell my liberal sister about this. Maybe she’ll get back on FB. She dumped it due to she was getting into too many arguments with the more conservative family members and was tired of them arguing and being defensive with her (their fault, of course).
I am increasingly tempted to erase myself completely from Facebook. I have enjoyed getting together with old friends, though I must say many have disappointed me—as they have grown older but not wiser when it comes to politics.
The town hall crap, though, basically amounts to an endorsement of Hussein. Facebook’s hierarchy must not care about what the public thinks...
Anytime Obama avails himself to Facebook or the Obama Campaign interacts with a Facebook group, the GOP needs to demand that such interaction counts as a direct campaign donation.
Another shining example of "We're so smart we base our lives on nothing more than our own infinite wisdom".
Prideful fools.
"Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. " -2Ti 3:7
Like the saying goes, choose the right tool for the job.
This guys been in Obamas pocket for a long time...he just met with Obama and other tech ceos recently...and it's all about covering Obama. Make no mistake the tech generation will be flooded about Obama...and a huge part of his re-election apparatus. Much of it will be wired for the youths involments and that of minorities as Obama knows the grassroot American are fully opposed to him....the only way he can win is to generate enthusiam to these people and their envolvement...with many payoffs and deals for doing so.
Yep - How does “Rightbook” sound :-D ?
Over the coming months more and more people will be looking at cheap personal networking devices based on plug servers to make their social networking more secure and off the cloud. See, for example:
http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/
and
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/freedom-box-freeing-the-internet-one-server-at-a-time/698
Are you a coder by any chance?
If they do this a conservative version of Facebook will come forward and dwarf be “the next big thing.”
I found Facebook a huge waste of time. I quit.
I’d rather he do his idiotic things on the interweb, keeps him from messing with the schedule of my favorite TV shows.
Offering Obama advertising approaching an election should be considered ‘in kind’ campaign donations - they are getting behind their candidate early and they want to expose the large numbers of young people to his ‘cool’ propaganda. How is this not a campaign donation?
I’ve always thought of Facebook as a leftist tool. Glad to know I wasn’t just paranoid. Who needs FB when you have FR?
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