June 2013
what do you mean people born in 1997 arent 3
what do you mean people born in 1997 arent 3
what do you mean people born in 1997 arent 3
*seductively whispers in your ear* what do you want from mcdonalds
current emotion: any picture of spike the dinosaur from land before time
“Facebook is the living dead: the most popular, least relevant social network where teenagers and adults alike gather out of fear of missing out on things that don’t even make them happy.”
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Amanda Hess, Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They’re Not Logging Off
Hess cites new Pew Study, Teens, Social Media, and Privacy by Mary Madden, Amanda Lenhart, Sandra Cortesi, Urs Gasser, Maeve Duggan, Aaron Smith. Facebook has become a social obligation, and has been colonized by disapproving, ever vigilant adults.
(via stoweboyd)
Actually, the data is showing a different conclusion to what is being claimed by the Facebook management. This shows a six month trend but other sources have been examining social media traffic over the past five to ten years and conclude there maybe as large as a 30% reduction in participation in social media by young people world wide. The six month trend then is just the most recent part of the longer trend towards declining participation by young people on the increasingly intrusive and commercial networks. (via idlnmclean)
“I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”
—Baba Ram Dass (via cosmofilius)
my ex texted me today “you can delete my number i don’t care anymore”
and i replied “who is this”
“A controversial police spy agency overlooked the alleged Boston Marathon bombing mastermind, but kept secret files on local peace activists—possibly including marathon rescue hero Carlos Arredondo. The Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC), an anti-terrorism agency run by the Boston Police Department with state and federal support, was the focus of Congressional scrutiny this month for failing to know anything about the late marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, both before and immediately after the April 15 attack, despite the Russian government warning the FBI about his possible terrorist training activities.”
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It’s important to remember this as you hear people talk about the “good police work” that led to the capture of Mr. Tsarnaev. Good police work didn’t catch him; an old man who saw someone jump into a covered boat did. The “police” were not in that mindset.
This is important because we’ve been hearing over and over how the capture of Tsarnaev justifies all the police state surveillance that keeps growing by the day, when in reality it was a private citizen and a store camera that led to Tsarnaev’s capture.
Spy center missed bomb suspect, watched JP peace activists | Jamaica Plain Gazette
(via vincenzof)