With the war in Gaza we’ve seen some of the uglier sides of social networking, where users can take a democratic platform of sharing information to attempt to manipulate and promote their own agendas. But today we see a blog post from Facebook that features guest author Mike Honda, a U.S. Congressman representing the 15th Congressional District of California. Facebook asked Honda to do the guest post on the company blog in order to share the ways in which he’s already been using the social network to share the experience of President-elect Obama’s upcoming inauguration.
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Last week I covered two new applications that are helping users to express support of both Palestinians and Israelis. The QassamCount application has grown to over 283,000 monthly active users and the STOP Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza application has surged to almost half a million users as of this morning. By tomorrow the application will likely be among the top hundred most active applications on Facebook.
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