Terrible, terrible business. I could start on the stupidity on American Gun Control laws (or lack there of) but this isn’t the time nor place.
In an internet sense though, is the Virginia Tech Massacre the tipping point for Facebook?
Did anyone see coverage of the whole thing on MySpace?
Articles like this at Reuters are reflected through out the MSM and the blog world: the response on the ground was covered nearly exclusively on Facebook. We know that Facebook had its day in the past, and was passed over by MySpace, and yet as a destination Facebook of late has become the new MySpace, the new in destination amongst a fickle user base, literally Facebook is experiencing a second coming, a new resurgence of popularity.
I’ve literally just signed up for Facebook today, and a bit like MySpace, I don’t fully get it yet. It reminds me of LinkedIn but with the ability to post stuff.
I’m yet to take the time to find/ read the VT Massacre coverage, but I will be shortly, as no doubt many others already have.
It’s a terrible thing to suggest that a site/ service succeeds off the back of tragedy, but in the same way that blogs came of age during the 2004 US presidential elections, the VT Massacre could be the tipping point for Facebook, the day that a rapidly growing social networking service finally hit the spotlight, a day that shall be remembered not only for the appalling loss of life, but also for a day that Facebook became the new MySpace, the new black.
Now if only they’d do something about the proliferation of guns in the United States.
Originally posted on April 18, 2007 @ 1:01 am
Duncan, this sort of tragedy is starting to happen in Canada, too. Guns in small town high schools are almost easy to purchase, according to stories I’ve heard when I managed young local musicians just out of school.
“Now if only they’d do something about the proliferation of guns in the United States.”
Guns aren’t the problem here, Duncan. Taking away guns wouldn’t prevent people with bad intentions from getting them any more than prohibition stopped people from drinking.
It would, however, prevent good people from having them to defend and protect.