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...Facebook profiles have long been a medium of self-expression for the site’s users. But what happens when self-expression crosses into the realm of hate speech? Created by a user named “Variable Variable,” a Facebook group using an obscenity to denounce Islam in its title had attracted nearly 850 members as of 6 p.m. yesterday. The group’s description begins by stating that “The Quran contains many lies and threats. Islam is false, no god exists, and someone should say that loud and clear...
...super computer-literate generation, news becomes a procrastination tool akin to the Facebook, and we lose the personal and contemplative component of reading. The print newspaper at breakfast creates a meditative and undistracted time for the text that allows me to not just suck in information, but also to slow down and formulate ideas about my position and power to change this news. I love seeing The Crimson read at breakfast, but I would also love to see lively debate among friends at lunchtime, national publication in hand, over war strategy or immigration policy...
...multitude of student groups at Harvard allows every individual to find his cause and promote it, but rarely causes collaboration with other extracurricular associations. RSS feeds and blogs customize information, leaving our generation perhaps better informed than any other previous ones, but informed selectively and self-centeredly. Facebook lets you add “causes” to your profile and find friends based on common interests and charities. But will the “1,000,000 strong for Barack” actually vote for him? Will thousands of blog readers board a bus in real life and stand...
...list with 2006’s. Forty-four Harvard students were interviewed for the study. Only one of them, according to Sperling, said they did not trust University Health Services. The report incorporated surveys of student health centers as well as feedback from students, which was solicited via Facebook, Sperling said. Jim Daniels, vice president of marketing at Trojan, praised the Ivy League’s newly crowned sultans of STD-suppression. “I think Harvard should be very proud [of] being in the top 10,” Daniels said in an interview...
...does reveal how involved U.S. Internet users are with a candidate's Web 2.0 presence, and again Ron Paul comes out on top. If we look at the traffic flowing from websites like MySpace, Facebook and YouTube, the candidate with the most visits from those sites is Ron Paul, followed by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. But if Ron Paul tops all of the Web metrics for popularity, like searches and traffic from social networks, then how can he be so far down in the Gallup Poll...