Questões de Inglês

    But we’re already asking what’s next … After all, before Facebook became large, MySpace was huge. I have wondered why we’re asking this question. After all, Google’s bigger than Facebook and has had an equally profound impact on us. But, people at dinner parties aren’t asking what comes after Google. I don’t get asked about the next big search engine at every conference I speak at.
    After some thought I’m willing to argue that Google and Facebook are very different in terms of the impact they’re having. Google has democratized information. In earlier times, vast amounts of money have been made by people who knew something before the rest of the world. Today, in an era where the phrase, “information is power” has become a cliche, Google has done more than any other service to give people access to information. Think about it, text searches, image searches, maps, news …
    Facebook’s impact is altogether different. Eben Moglen puts it best: we have lost our anonymity online. Every service preceding Facebook (myspace et all) have been leading up to this one point: each of us now has a permanent, online, identity.

WHAT COMES AFTER FACEBOOK
By Naren on June 18, 2011

    “What comes after Facebook?” This is a question that’s being asked very frequently nowadays — and by people who, a few years ago, were struggling with email.
    I know people who still ask for their emails to be presented to them as printouts, who insist on writing in longhand (as in pen and paper) and then asking someone to “type the damn thing in.” But the fact that they are asking the question means that it’s time for an answer.
    For a very large number of us today (nearly 700 million), Facebook has become an integral part of our lives. Facebook has had a profound impact on society. Many of us are in touch with old friends. We keep track of each others lives and don’t feel like complete strangers when we meet. We share aspects of our lives as well, and enjoy it when people appreciate our photographs. On a larger scale, Facebook has been given credit for political revolutions, for social and cultural movements. Facebook captures the zeitgeist of the first decade of the 21st century. I will always refer to the last ten years as the Facebook years.
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    But we’re already asking what’s next … After all, before Facebook became large, MySpace was huge. I have wondered why we’re asking this question. After all, Google’s bigger than Facebook and has had an equally profound impact on us. But, people at dinner parties aren’t asking what comes after Google. I don’t get asked about the next big search engine at every conference I speak at.
    After some thought I’m willing to argue that Google and Facebook are very different in terms of the impact they’re having. Google has democratized information. In earlier times, vast amounts of money have been made by people who knew something before the rest of the world. Today, in an era where the phrase, “information is power” has become a cliche, Google has done more than any other service to give people access to information. Think about it, text searches, image searches, maps, news …
    Facebook’s impact is altogether different. Eben Moglen puts it best: we have lost our anonymity online. Every service preceding Facebook (myspace et all) have been leading up to this one point: each of us now has a permanent, online, identity.

WHAT COMES AFTER FACEBOOK
By Naren on June 18, 2011

    “What comes after Facebook?” This is a question that’s being asked very frequently nowadays — and by people who, a few years ago, were struggling with email.
    I know people who still ask for their emails to be presented to them as printouts, who insist on writing in longhand (as in pen and paper) and then asking someone to “type the damn thing in.” But the fact that they are asking the question means that it’s time for an answer.
    For a very large number of us today (nearly 700 million), Facebook has become an integral part of our lives. Facebook has had a profound impact on society. Many of us are in touch with old friends. We keep track of each others lives and don’t feel like complete strangers when we meet. We share aspects of our lives as well, and enjoy it when people appreciate our photographs. On a larger scale, Facebook has been given credit for political revolutions, for social and cultural movements. Facebook captures the zeitgeist of the first decade of the 21st century. I will always refer to the last ten years as the Facebook years.
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WHAT COMES AFTER FACEBOOK
By Naren on June 18, 2011

    “What comes after Facebook?” This is a question that’s being asked very frequently nowadays — and by people who, a few years ago, were struggling with email.
    I know people who still ask for their emails to be presented to them as printouts, who insist on writing in longhand (as in pen and paper) and then asking someone to “type the damn thing in.” But the fact that they are asking the question means that it’s time for an answer.
    For a very large number of us today (nearly 700 million), Facebook has become an integral part of our lives. Facebook has had a profound impact on society. Many of us are in touch with old friends. We keep track of each others lives and don’t feel like complete strangers when we meet. We share aspects of our lives as well, and enjoy it when people appreciate our photographs. On a larger scale, Facebook has been given credit for political revolutions, for social and cultural movements. Facebook captures the zeitgeist of the first decade of the 21st century. I will always refer to the last ten years as the Facebook years.
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WHAT COMES AFTER FACEBOOK
By Naren on June 18, 2011

    “What comes after Facebook?” This is a question that’s being asked very frequently nowadays — and by people who, a few years ago, were struggling with email.
    I know people who still ask for their emails to be presented to them as printouts, who insist on writing in longhand (as in pen and paper) and then asking someone to “type the damn thing in.” But the fact that they are asking the question means that it’s time for an answer.
    For a very large number of us today (nearly 700 million), Facebook has become an integral part of our lives. Facebook has had a profound impact on society. Many of us are in touch with old friends. We keep track of each others lives and don’t feel like complete strangers when we meet. We share aspects of our lives as well, and enjoy it when people appreciate our photographs. On a larger scale, Facebook has been given credit for political revolutions, for social and cultural movements. Facebook captures the zeitgeist of the first decade of the 21st century. I will always refer to the last ten years as the Facebook years.
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