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VentureBeat: Facebook, Stanford ask — can social networking promote peace?

  • thetechnologycafe · 1 month ago
    World peace 2.0 Facebook rocks I think this really could start a social movement on the planet this one being the biggest one by far
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    http://thetechnologycafe.com/peace-facebook-com...
  • PHWalsh · 1 month ago
    Brilliant attitude mate, if only we had more like you ;-)
  • samir · 1 month ago
    Thanks man check out my site if you can thetechnologycafe.com
  • Mark_Nelson · 1 month ago
    You scooped us Kim-Mai! =) We've got some info up at peace.stanford.edu now.

    You can also learn more about the project at our Facebook Fan Page, here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PeaceDOT/17508831...

    It's called PeaceDot (think peace-dot-any-website) and it's bigger than just Facebook. We're launching a peace sub-domain right across the web, to showcase new data-sets and new tools for creating peace, things that have never been available in human history until the last few years.

    Thanks for covering us!
  • Mark_Nelson · 1 month ago
    Our peace.stanford.edu site has been updated Kim-Mai. And there will be another update around 7 tonight.
  • alan p · 1 month ago
    If the choice architectures aren't designed well it has every chance of doing the opposite - my thoughts on this here following some fairly "interesting" online mobbings in the UK

    http://broadstuff.com/archives/1931-Stuff-White...
  • PHWalsh · 1 month ago
    Wicked article on a very important topic.

    Totally agree with the lads as well. I had a book published on Facebook Statuses entitled 'is: The Phenomenon of the Facebook Status' (www.theisbook.com) and I have to admit that when I was doing my research I found that a lot of, what the media lead us to believe, enemies where actually very good friends and getting along swimmingly, which is beautiful.


    Good work Kim-Mai I look forward to reading more of your stuff
  • Jacob · 1 month ago
    The concept here seems to be that by connecting online, users will become more understanding of others and therefore more peaceful. Not a bad idea, but Facebook seems like, philosophically, a bad place to start, since the whole concept is merely mapping out your existing friendships, not making new friends.