FaceBook

Again, by chance, I am facing where I have already been. Looking back at what I’ve already left behind?  My great friend Martina writes that she prefers to face the direction of travel because if she likes what she sees coming she can keep it longer by turning to keep it in her view after she arrives, passes. Well, she wrote some explanation far less convoluted seeming, to the extent that her words sold the idea to me straight away. This morning on the SBB from Lausanne to Neuchatel I had no choice. Those boarding this train five minutes later are standing.
This is simply some waffle to explore getting this notified and maybe even noticed on my Facebook page.  I really need a t-shirt, ‘Addicted to Facebook(?)’, Does the question mark belong in brackets? Does it belong at all?  ‘Facebook ‘It’s the real world.’ OK I do not actually mean that, expressly, literally, well, not entirely but there was a period. That period feeling cut off from a daily time consuming opinion changing reality really did make me consider the value of Facebook (FBook as I abbreviate it. Why is it that we abbreviate things? I feel that there is a likely balance between shortening for ease, time saving and a familiarity, ownership/involvement factor.)  Either way: the value of FBook?  It has to be fair to consider this the largest, most ‘successful’ furthest reaching social site.  “Facebook says it had an average of 526m daily active users in March 2012, an increase of 41pc from a year ago”. AND “Facebook has more than 900m active users. If the company were a country, it would be the third largest in the world after China (population: 1.34bn) and India (population: 1.17bn)” (Facts from THe Telegraph.co.uk October 4th 2012. It appears that the electronic versions do not credit the writer of articles?) It’s value? Would it seem to strong to compare it with the value of the web itself? I presume that a number of people are making noises of disagreement. I myself would immediately feel the need to defend the web, possibly one of mankind’s strongest developments offering unbridled affordable access to limitless information. True knowledge sharing. An opportunity for the world to communicate on a scale that compares it and the printing press to tying a note to the leg of a pigeon versus a fully developed postal service?  With all that the web has to offer: actual education, qualifications, work from home opportunity and scams galore. News as it happens. Record of everything that has happened and instructions on ‘How To’ just about anything. Where else can claim to connect so many people on an informal actual communication basis? Where else do the human race have  a better opportunity to tell each other what they really feel, really care about?
This comment is a ‘work in progress’ as is life. A few security issues to address and how much could be influenced by this lead advertising channel? Perhaps presidents and prime ministers could be elected by FBook?