The Activist Facebook Dilema
Wotzisname | 04.10.2011 23:42
OK.
So, I've always been extremely sceptical about using facebook for anything, let alone political activism
But, my opinion might be changing. Since and during the riots, I've been using it more and more, picking up and distributing LOTS of valuable information (from various sources) to people that otherwise possibly wouldn't have heard this info.. Information flows at a rate that quite frankly makes IM look pretty damn pedestrian at the moment.....
Its a TOOL. and by posting and distributing stuff, information gets out there. QUICK.
Yes, there's a compromise on anonymity, and security. clearly. But, it depends what you're saying. What are we hiding anyway?
Spread the word. Be proud. Tell people what Anarchism stands for... They will agree if explained lucidly through the right channels... Don't hide in the shadows. Tell people what you believe. Young people now read more FB than they read mainstream media. THIS SHIT IS WORKING. Look around the world. Movements are mobilising via these sordid channels. Use them. They won't be here forever. Tahrir Sq__ Wall st__ London?
Are we dismissing a powerfull tool out of dogma or paranoia?
Is it time to take our masks off and join the masses (marcos?)? Oct 15th ?
Why not ?! (cos us lot didn't sit in a meeting and decide to do it ourselves, by consensus and on our terms?)
Lets link arms and give em wot for. Thats what I say.
But then I've just come back from the pub.
(please discuss......)
So, I've always been extremely sceptical about using facebook for anything, let alone political activism
But, my opinion might be changing. Since and during the riots, I've been using it more and more, picking up and distributing LOTS of valuable information (from various sources) to people that otherwise possibly wouldn't have heard this info.. Information flows at a rate that quite frankly makes IM look pretty damn pedestrian at the moment.....
Its a TOOL. and by posting and distributing stuff, information gets out there. QUICK.
Yes, there's a compromise on anonymity, and security. clearly. But, it depends what you're saying. What are we hiding anyway?
Spread the word. Be proud. Tell people what Anarchism stands for... They will agree if explained lucidly through the right channels... Don't hide in the shadows. Tell people what you believe. Young people now read more FB than they read mainstream media. THIS SHIT IS WORKING. Look around the world. Movements are mobilising via these sordid channels. Use them. They won't be here forever. Tahrir Sq__ Wall st__ London?
Are we dismissing a powerfull tool out of dogma or paranoia?
Is it time to take our masks off and join the masses (marcos?)? Oct 15th ?
Why not ?! (cos us lot didn't sit in a meeting and decide to do it ourselves, by consensus and on our terms?)
Lets link arms and give em wot for. Thats what I say.
But then I've just come back from the pub.
(please discuss......)
Wotzisname
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