United Nations of Facebook
The next important world summit will be held on California Avenue in Palo Alto. And FB is moving to Menlo soon so the summit will have to be very soon. But that is the importance to which FB is hurtling.
Last week when the Winklevosses were on Piers Morgan, they argued they were grossly under compensated. That was before FB and a Google VP overthrew Egypt this week.
Even before this week, it was clear that FB, Twitter, Al-Jazeera, and Al Aribaya—the punchlines of jokes for the longest time—were now more important than the media that carried those jokes, the political leaders of the nations where the news was being made, AND the armies that supposedly backed up the power of those leaders.
Those institutions USED to be the important ones. Now they were decidedly following the leadership of what was displayed/conveyed/relayed by the so recently upstart/irrelevant/not-ready-for-prime time media.
If all this wasn't totally obvious two years ago in Iran, it sure seems hard to miss now.
The formulation of at least one of the criteria of the new reality (the catch phrase that came out of the recent Davos financial summit) is Arabs + FB = Revolution. Get used to it.
And next week it'll on display be Algeria.
How many courses at Stanford are devoted to the study of Facebookology (the science of world change via only one form of social media)?
