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Social Media Uniting the World

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

Over the last few years, it’s been amazing to see how social media has united people globally in various causes from ecological concerns to political uprisings. These days it’s much harder for a government to silence people, to censor them, and keep them under wraps. (more…)

Facebook, The Meeting of Like Minds & Discord

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Virtual communities are similar in many ways, one of which is providing information and support. But Facebook alone stands out in a way that I’ve not seen on any other platforms. It’s a community of like minds, and sometimes discord. Both are what make the FB families so special, much like physical families. (more…)

Encouraging Treating Farm Animals Humanely

Sunday, June 13th, 2010
Cruel Pig Pen

Cruel Pig Pen

Food animals are on my mind a lot lately. I have viewed some intensely disturbing video of how farm animals are treated, from pigs that are kept in such tight areas they can not even roll over and never walk a single day in their life, to cows that are brutally beaten, have broken bones and backs, and are made to suffer cruel, agonizing deaths. (more…)

Virtual Havens for Non-Believers

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Historically and by definition non-believers, such as Atheists, Agnostics, Humanists, and Secular Buddhists stood for nothing. Non-believers just went about their lives as though religion didn’t exist, at least not much, and paid little attention to the topic. In recent years, however, that has changed. (more…)

Getting Past Twitter Noise to Useful Information

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
My Twitter

My Twitter

There is a lot of noise in social networking. I mean a lot! But the definition of noise depends entirely on personal opinion. What one perceives as noise, another will find valuable or enjoyable. When I first created a Twitter account, it seemed like all noise. I have a Facebook (FB) account, and Twitter simply seemed a repeat of the status line in FB. Why read tweets of the same nature? (more…)