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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook can play a role that churches and Little League once filled
CNBC ^ | 26 June 2017 | John Shinal

Posted on 06/28/2017 7:10:59 AM PDT by Lorianne

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To: Lorianne

Schmuckerberg is so full of himself. What has he accomplished? He became a billionaire catering to the lowest common denominator? He happened to be in the right place at the right time?

He (and others) think he is somehow heroic, I don’t get it! I deactivated my FB account ten years ago, I can’t imagine why anybody uses it!


21 posted on 06/28/2017 8:02:16 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Lorianne

You know Zuck, we still have Churches and Little League, except for some San Fran atheists who have leather bars and S&M to bring the community together.


22 posted on 06/28/2017 8:02:35 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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Zuckerberg has a point, albeit in the opposite way.

No accident that these high-tech companies developed in a rapidly secularizing society. They are taking the place of family, church, community. Kids are worshipping at the altar of Apple, Google, Amazon, etc. These companies have created insular, self-contained mini-cities where workers don’t even have to leave to shop, eat, even do laundry.

This is not a good thing. Social media, while useful for community news & events, is no substitute for human relationships or lifecycle events. Many of these millennials are going to find out the hard way, when they end up alone in a studio apartment with a laptop, or phoning on an app for take-out.


23 posted on 06/28/2017 8:02:53 AM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: heterosupremacist

He stole the idea!

Behind every great fortune there is a great crime...
De Balzac


24 posted on 06/28/2017 8:04:04 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Road Warrior ‘04
#20 Road Warrior ‘04 wrote: Facebook can play a role that ... Little League once filled. Ridiculous! Little League teaches the Great American Pastime to youngsters, and they also learn of teamwork, winning, losing, and good sportsmanship. FB cannot be a substitute for team sports. I understand that some little leagues no longer keep score, and everybody 'earns' a trophy, but I still prefer that to young people who waste their time with FB propaganda!
25 posted on 06/28/2017 8:17:28 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Lorianne

Harvard scientist Robert Putnam found that diversity hurts civic life, reduces social trust, pushes tribalism / grouping when the minorities are large enough to form their own enclaves.

In short, liberals importing people from other cultures in large enough numbers for them to “clump” HURTS engagement.

The oldest of political realities is that people are most tolerant of those who differ from themselves when they live among those who do not differ, and when they do not fear having alien ways pressed upon them. This recognition is what enabled history’s great ecumenical empires to survive in peace.

Latter is a quote from: Libs may learn that cities supporting school prayer or are anti-abortion could also become ‘sanctuaries’
http://jewishworldreview.com/0617/codevilla061917.php3


26 posted on 06/28/2017 8:26:47 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Lorianne

Bowling with Facebook.


27 posted on 06/28/2017 8:40:05 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Lorianne

We started discussing this yesterday here.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3564677/posts


28 posted on 06/28/2017 8:51:30 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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