Facebook can do a lot more

Building a fun place for 500 million people to share pics and play silly games is *NOT* that cool. I believe what more cool is to enable technology for freedom of expression and not to chicken out something which facebook is doing in the case of egypt crisis. They are okay to let their 5 million egyptian members down because they don't want to make angry egypt govt. and other countries under dictatorship. And expecially China where they are banned but want a pie of 420 million people using internet. If Facebook wants to remain a place where people hang out with their friends they certainly have to do more .

More on this:
* Facebook's China interest
* Why Facebook Should Do More to Help Egypt's Protesters
* Facebook treads carefully after its vital role in Egypt's anti-Mubarak protests

Civilized man

Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment; instead, he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labour-saving devices. But somehow he didn't know where to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make life easier, the more complicated he made it. So now his children are sentenced to 10-15 years of school, just to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were born into. And civilized man, who refused to adapt to his surroundings, now finds he has to adapt and re-adapt every hour of the day to his self-created environment. For instance, if it's Monday and 7:30 comes up, you have to dis-adapt from your domestic surroundings and re-adapt yourself to an entirely different environment. 8:00 means everybody has to look busy. 10:15 means you can stop looking busy for 15 minutes. And then you have to look busy again. And so your day is chopped into pieces, and in each segment of time you adapt to a new set circumstances. No wonder some people go off the rails a bit...