Glad to know that someone else is being human, not allowing machine to take over or Facebook to replace real friends:) Like your attitude, fully endorse it.
For fear of making it a political debate, I will humble refrain from any more comment.
Only one point: Neither Iraq war nor War in Afghanistan is justified by ANY argument at all.
If WikiLeak is so powerful then it should have exposed how Bush conspired to destroy these two countries, kill millions of people over there and get its own soldiers killed in a war no one can justify.
Michael Moore did more to expose the wrongness of Iraq war through his book "Dude, Where's my Country" then WikiLeak can claim to have done. Michael Moore was the first American celebrity who opposed Iraq war from Oscar podium and for that he was booed. He stood against the general public sentiment and two years down the line, people realized how right he was. Please read that book if you can, you can find some information about that book in Wikipedia, here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude,_Where%27s_My_Country%3F
regards.
"wikileaks is all about freedom of information..."
I don't want to hurt any hacker's emotions but I feel "freedom of information" should end where it endangers those people's lives who are working for their countries, whether soldiers or diplomats.
Freedom of information and expose MUST be for common man's good, not just for gaining publicity.
Expose the wrong, not the mundane.Otherwise it's pure eavesdropping and bragging about your power to do so.
Diplomacy IS "the art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations" (as defined by Merriam Webster dictionary). That is precisely what all the exposed diplomatic cables were doing.Anything wrong with that?
If I study hard to get a job in foreign services and someday, somewhere, someone decides to divulge my confidential, professional conversations just for the heck of it, and it destroys my reputation then what it should be called? Expose or public titillation?
And if freedom of information or "openness" is so vital then why WikiLeak's founder guards his privacy so fiercely? One rule for others, one for himself?
That's why I never bought a Kindle.It's like paying for a book but be forced to keep it only at the shopkeeper's shelf. Kindle means I don't own the book I have paid for.
Giving them too much power is another thing that I'm wary of. So I still use various mail accounts, various options for online activities instead of going ga-ga over all things G.
Basically, the new profile has become more ad-friendly than what it used to be, user friendly.
No, I don't like the way my communications (Wall Posts) have been sidelined and ads have become the most prominent feature in my profile page.
If the status update is mundane like "am eating a bagel" and you have a really funny photo of eating a bagel then the photo is definitely going to win the comment competition. If you use the status update intelligently, like tweeting about something that will interest your group then you can have a good discussion going on with just a few simple lines. Like a Tweet on FB Wall.
I agree, no conspiracy theories, just changing algorithms for trending topics.Even popular (and issues based) discussions with certain #tags are removed from trending topics after a fixed number of days, no matter how many people are still tweeting about that particular topic, with that particular #tag.So, if you want to keep a topic alive, you need to change the related #tag after that certain time period.