Re: [Marxism] Facebook?

[Bill Quimby <wquimby@xxxxxxx>]

Can you expand your thoughts on using Facebook (and other social
networking tools) for organizing? Interesting.

I am familiar with the use that has been made of the "matchup"
concept (for example the Repug convention in New York in 2004)
but wonder, since Facebook et alia have taken an "extension of the ego"
character, how welcome serious ideas and politics would be on that
site. [Not that politics is not in fact personal - but it is unlikely that the
Facebook user is ready to accept that?]

- Bill

Ruthless Critic of All that Exists wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Lenin's Tomb 
> <leninstombblog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have been added to Facebook by a number of friends and comrades, 
>>> including Doug Henwood just now. Can somebody explain what the hell 
>>> Facebook is used
>>> for?<http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/leninstombblog%40googlemail.com>
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> It *can* be used to keep friends up to date with important events, share 
>> info, etc.
>> 
>> It is more frequently used for dirty chit-chat and back-stabbing absent 
>> associates.  Either way it is a boring and hateful enterprise, packed with 
>> trivia and quizzes and lolcats.  It's made the owner one of the world's few
>>  billionaires.
> 
> Marxists must not shy away from new media thinking that it is trivial. 
> Technological tools are being created that will have an enormous potential
> impact on organizing, as can any tool or mechanism that brings people in
> contact with each other.
> 
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