In a day and age that keeps me in the loop, whether I want to be included or not, it’s hard to imagine 24 hours without the all mighty, all powerful Facebook in my life. For many, Facebook has replaced email, incorporated Flickr or Picassa and become a one stop shop for all communications.
Today I am not logging into Facebook.
This is not a test of my own willpower, or a desire to cut back on my internet usage. I have six tabs open right now, along with Outlook and Skype – I am very much online. This is a day of protest. Roughly ten days ago, Facebook re-drew Israel’s boarders, removed many of the “settlements” from their list of cities, and moved the city of Maaleh Adumin from Israel to “Palestine”.
No matter what you think of Israel’s status, or boarders, these need to be defined by our government and our people, and not the minds of the people that control our Social Networking.
This campaign isn’t too well known, and probably won’t have much of an effect, but today, March 16 2008, Zuckerberg can stick his Millions where the sun don’t shine, because last time I checked, he wasn’t G-d and didn’t give me my country.
UPDATE: For more info see the group and sign up, it would seem that users were removed from this group – let’s get it back off the ground.
i was fuming mad after seeing the jpost article (why believe them is a different story) so i made a test- and now facebook allows you to list your town (from Yesha) as either in israel or palestine.
now we all know there is no palestine but i gotta give kudo’s to a site that takes foreeeeever to fix these types of problems. i might not their solution but it was better than the alternative.
stupid of them to listen to the UN definition of Israel/Palestine ..
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