Facebook has just launched a new portal at peace.Facebook.com that highlights the site’s desire to promote “peace by building technology that helps people better understand each other”. The site appears to be part of a larger Peace dot movement that’s launching tonight, with the participation of some “impressive organizations” (we’re not sure who else besides Facebook is involved quite yet).
Peace.facebook.com is fairly simple at this point, with a handful of graphs and a widget that lets Facebook users share what they think of the site. The most compelling portion offers a series of graphs depicting “Friendships of Facebook”, which shows how many members of historically hostile groups are becoming friends on Facebook. These graphs include stats from Geographic, Religious, and Political pairings. There’s also a graph that shows the results of a daily poll conducted by Facebook on whether or not World Peace is possible in the next 50 years (over 35% of Columbians think so, but only 7% of users in the US are optimistic).
Too bad that the people that need to receive peace in their hearts are probably not using FaceBook.
To create a more peaceful world, you gotta go attack the evil where it exist in the world.
yes, the people who “need to receive peace in their hearts” are definitely better reached by someone going and attacking them than through Facebook. smart comment, dude.
What’s worrying is that quite a few religion-drugged Americans agree with this bizarre analysis.
I love seeing technology and internet power being put to use for more than monetary gain. Fantastic idea they have going here.
Yes. I’m glad to see Facebook trying to be socially responsible.
I guess they need to balance out also being the #1 site for drunken pass out draw-penises-on-someone’s-face party pics.
This isn’t the beginning, but indeed another major step towards respecting one another on a global scale.
yes .. I do agree .. ppl need to know their limits .. and maintain decency online as well .. Good job fb .. a nice step
Peace,
Daina
I think a good start to world Peace 2.0 but needs more user involvement
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http://thetechn...ng-world-peace/
I can still find dozens upon dozens of holocaust denial groups on Facebook. It might be a better idea to work on that first before they try to make itself look like a caring, peace-spreading network.
maybe, but then again perhaps lighting a candle is more likely to help than railing against darkness.
If anyone can help increase peace, Facebook is probably in the best position to do so. I don’t think any other platform on the planet facilitates as many relationships as FB.
Actually I think the opposite could well occur. If the choice architectures aren’t designed well it has every chance of doing the opposite – my thoughts on this following some fairly “interesting” recent online mobbings in the UK are here:
http://broadstu...-of-Speech.html
I agree, facebook is so popular and had over 1 million users in 9 months of after their launch. This is something that shows that they care about the world.
What is “Columbians”?
Can technology solve the age old challenge?
Being able to share stats on peace and allowing people the ability to use stats to derive insights on the matters at hand which are important in the geopolitical space is definitely a great way to drive awareness. Can it make peace? Probably not but it can help it towards the tipping point. Seriously activities like these help FB gain street cred. MySpace never bothered with such activities. And if this site can be internationalized it can be very powerful. Imagine citizens of conflicted countries being able to harness the power of social networks to drive awareness of their plight?
Peace through strength
Great idea…i encourage it . All the best
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In these times where many people are “buying” into the media hype, it is essential we rise above the entitlement mode of behavior. Peace is definitely probable and possible. We all need to take back our personal power in the workplace and world. The question is the following…Do we know how to do this in a “peaceful” manner? Do we truly know the meaning of the word…COMPASSION? It is time to get out of our heads and into our lives. It all begins and ends within each of us.