BC Election Facebook Group

CKNW has created a non-partisan Facebook group on which to discuss the upcoming BC Election. If you're a Facebook member, do check it out!

Facebook, Twitter, Etc.

David Berner let go with a good rant about the current crop of social networking tools. I added my thoughts:

I'm actually on Facebook. I resisted for a long time but a very pretty Italian woman from Montreal convinced me to join. Hey, I'm weak, I'm weak!

With that said, I view it as a simple social networking tool, not a whole lot different than e-mail. And in point of fact, it has sparked several new friendships amongst my friends, which otherwise wouldn't have ever likely occurred.

As for Twitter, I have a special term for those who are obsessed with it! (It won't take you long to figure out what that might be! LOL)

Being a technology guy, I fully understand the power of Twitter to keep a vast number of people updated instantly but I refuse to accept that it's necessary or even useful to do so. Those who have convinced themselves that the world needs their regular updates is truly in need of a good psychologist!

What's much more disconcerting to me are those people we all see out in the "non-virtual world" who can't seem to muster even 30 seconds of continuous silence and time to ... wait for it ... think. Listening to them talk on their cel phones almost always illustrates the truly shallow thinkers that they clearly are. I surmise that the text messages they send out are even more emblematic.

I'm not looking forward to the future when these same twits (there, I said it!) are the ones responsible for paying the taxes to pay for the services in society when I'm retired.

A Sampling of "Moderate" Muslims

Facebook is a strange & peculiar place at times. Any user is able to create any group that they wish. Many of these groups are public, which anyone can join. Several Muslims have decided to create different versions of "I Hate Israel" groups. Thousands, upon thousands, of people have joined. Perhaps these would be the "moderate" Muslims we keep hearing about?








If you're a Facebook member, then take a look at this group. Here's a sampling of some of the comments therein:

• "if israel was a person, i wont kill em until it get the worst toprture ever, fuck israel fuck everybody who support israel" - Youssef Karmoun, University of Malaga Grad Student, Spain
• "Israel is a FAKE country, not even a country, just a band of criminals!!" - Said Ghaleb, Morocco
• "STOP EXPLAINING AND APOLOGIZIN,YES i hate jewish.they paid & still paying 2 kill palestinians and hve th3ir own country on other's land,coz they r nawar gitanes thiefs murderers sneeky and liars,every single jewish is paying tax to israel.we have to make them feel what they made palestinians feel, i hate jewish here & there & everywhere.maya from lebannnnnnnnoooooooooooooo
  ooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.proud to hate jewish,wait for us & u will see.i hve a wish:get invited to where i can find jewish,i wish to take the revenge of GAZA." - Rana Sabouni
• "hatred is not enough let's do something more .these SAUVAGES and MURDERERS ?DESERVE MORE THAN JUST HATRE" - Hanaa Naoumi
• "We should all pray to Allah to eradicate Izrael!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  !!!!!!!!!! (But Oh!!Well we have known since the creation of the Qu'ran Al Kareem that the situation in Palestine was going to remain this way or perhaps get even worse)" - Alaoui Fdili Zineb, Richmond UK 2011 student, London
• "NO way to accept the crimes comited in Palestine today, just like we never accepted the crimes comited in 2006 in Lebanon. We don't hate israel because of their nationality, their race, their religion or they colour of skin, but only beacause of they are Killers and nothing else. And this is note antisemitism, beacause of they are Ashkenaze, and Ashkenaze are from Europe, and caucasian, not hebrew! (even if their religion is judaism)" - Salim C.
• "join us all against israel group from austria" - Samir Oulhaj, FH Technikum Wien Grad Student, Austria (Note: There's something more than a little spooky about the coincidence of where this fellow lives! Also, his first name has 5 letters and his last name has 6. Hmmm, who does that remind me of?!?)
• "Allahu Akbar! When Israelis commit Genocide, they call it self defense! When Palestinians defend themselves, the media calls it terrorism! Allah will decide between the two parties!" - Drew AnZhu Ahmad Marshall, Delaware Alumni 2007, Delaware USA

Welcome to 2009! :-(

What Facebook is Really All About

The next time someone tells you that they must have access to Facebook during working hours, remember this:

Is Another Tech Bubble About To Pop?

If you're in the I.T. business then you may be following the latest crisis going on at Facebook. On paper, Facebook is worth a LOT of money right now. But will that value last forever? I wonder.

Watch this hilarious and yet telling video:

Ever paid too much for something?

eBay appears to have paid about $1.43 Billion too much for Skype. You can read more about this here and here. This is an interesting development because Skype was the hot thing a few years ago, enabling people around the world to talk for free from computer to computer. I love their service and use it most every day.

Rumour has it that Microsoft may be trying to purchase an interest in FaceBook. Something tells me that a few years from now, a similar paid-too-much story will be appearing!