Not because you told us, but because your friends told their friends, and since you're a mutual friend, we all learned something about you. You friend produced this "news" which, of course, could have been "news" in a small town newspaper, only then it would have been covered by a reporter and photographer - if it was at all. ;p
shag
At 08:13 PM 2/10/2011, Carrol Cox wrote:
>Well, I did research. I asked what it meant.
>
>Carrol
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>On Behalf Of Jordan Hayes
>Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 7:00 PM
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] The role of social media in the Egyptian uprising
>
>Carrol asks:
>
> > So what's to understand?
>
>You could start by trying to understand that 'social media' in this
>context doesn't mean any of the things you've determined it means --
>remember a few hours ago when you claimed you had no idea what it was?
>That should have been a clue for you to do some research before just
>making up a [IMHO, worthless to this thread; perhaps worse than
>worthless since it has now taken the thread down endless corridors of
>stupidity] definition on your own. It has a particular meaning in
>popular culture, and it was that meaning that was used earlier in the
>thread as a touchstone.
>
>You might even start looking in a place many consider to be a canonical
>example of said social media: Wikipedia.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
>
>After reading that page, if you'd like to correct all of us in our use
>of the term, please do so on that page itself so that all may learn from
>your insights, as opposed to on this mailing list, where many people now
>simply delete messages from this thread without bothering to read them.
>
>You started the day without knowing what social media is; now you are
>one.
>
>/jordan
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