How a Non-Facebooker sees the news
A non-facebooker or a slowly one faces occasional pangs through the day, then more sparsely throughout the week, giving doubt to whether quitting "the Platform" is doable or even in one's best interest.
In today's newspaper is a story of upcoming student marches for better gun control "Bay Area student organizers are in vanguard."
Many passages in the above story imply this magic generation is so special because they know how to use social media and they're going to make change happen through social media. This is a myth.
As the Orlando Sentinal reported today those students we saw on youtubed TV clips last week that spoke so eloquently and emphatically were largely students in the debate class and had been debating gun control through the fall and winter.
And the New York Times today had a "Go ahead, brag a little" piece, made first of reader responses they'd gathered in Facebook. Good on the nyt, though, for continuing the reader listening session on the nyt website where readers who avoid "the Platform" for very personal reasons and objections could be included.
In today's newspaper is a story of upcoming student marches for better gun control "Bay Area student organizers are in vanguard."
Many passages in the above story imply this magic generation is so special because they know how to use social media and they're going to make change happen through social media. This is a myth.
As the Orlando Sentinal reported today those students we saw on youtubed TV clips last week that spoke so eloquently and emphatically were largely students in the debate class and had been debating gun control through the fall and winter.
And the New York Times today had a "Go ahead, brag a little" piece, made first of reader responses they'd gathered in Facebook. Good on the nyt, though, for continuing the reader listening session on the nyt website where readers who avoid "the Platform" for very personal reasons and objections could be included.
