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The Province estreet Question:<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Facebook turned 10 this week. Overall, has \u201csocial media\u201d been a positive or negative development for civilization?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

‘Social media’ requires the involvement of human beings.<\/p>\n

Therefore:<\/p>\n

Given the race to the bottom, it\u2019s all about me [ME, ME, ME] society that has been created by what is today accepted as leadership, politics, business and media…..<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

Given the behaviours of people created by that race to the bottom, it\u2019s all about me [ME, ME, ME] society……..<\/p>\n

It follows:<\/p>\n

It is a given that the benefits to be found in \u2018Social Media\u2019 will be overwhelmed by the Tsunami of malicious uses concocted by people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Province estreet Question: Facebook turned 10 this week. Overall, has \u201csocial media\u201d been a positive or negative development for civilization? ‘Social media’ requires the involvement of human beings. Therefore: Given the race to the bottom, it\u2019s all about me [ME, ME, ME] society that has been created by what is today accepted as leadership, politics, business and media….. and Given the behaviours of people created by that race to the bottom, it\u2019s all about me [ME, ME, ME] society…….. It follows: It is a given that the benefits to be found in \u2018Social Media\u2019 will be overwhelmed by the Tsunami of malicious uses concocted by people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-james-commentary"],"yoast_head":"\nThe James Commentary - February 5, 2014 - James W. Breckenridge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jameswbreckenridge.ca\/?p=3106\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The James Commentary - February 5, 2014 - James W. 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