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Facebook, TIME's Person of the Year,
and the Pro-Life Movement Part Two of Four By Dave Andrusko
If numbers=influence, it's hard to exaggerate what an incredible communications vehicle Facebook has become. The TIME story gives you a sense of how expansive Facebook's reach actually is. This year, Lev Grossman writes, the social networking giant "added its 550 millionth member. One out of every dozen people on the planet has a Facebook account. They speak 75 languages and collectively lavish more than 700 billion minutes on Facebook every month. Last month the site accounted for 1 out of 4 American page views. Its membership is currently growing at a rate of about 700,000 people a day." I mention the award for a couple of reasons. You should know that NRLC has a Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Right-to-Life/286781440146) and utilize its offerings. While it is only one of many, many ways NRLC communicates with grassroots pro-lifers and with the casual online surfer, NRLC's Facebook page is an important asset. For example, because NRLC pumps out so much information from so many sources (including "Today's News & Views" and "National Right to Life News Today"), it is very handy to be able to come to NRLC's Facebook page and see many of these entries, including from www.stoptheabortionagenda.com. Moreover, with a click, you can forward what you find to your friends or post the blog entries on your own social networking pages, including Facebook. The other reason I bring up Facebook is because it is such a powerful tool for our online readership to spread the message to people they know are sympathetic to the cause. In many ways this is just how it works in real world situations, but the Internet breaks down the barriers of time and location so that you can share important pro-life news with a friend across the country and keep them in the know. Final thought: While Facebook is the largest and most influential, it is by no means the only prominent social networking tool. I hope you are utilizing all of them, from A[dfty] to Z[ootool], to share pro-life information with your family, friends, and colleagues. This is a cost-free way to educate a massive number of people to the beauty of unborn life and the truth that there must be a better way than abortion. Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. |
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now you probably know that Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook,
is TIME magazine's Person of the Year. According to the accompanying
super-laudatory, gushy profile, Zuckerberg won "for connecting more than
half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for
creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all
live our lives…"