It’s not that bad to have a Facebook account. It can be time consuming if you let it, but social media actually holds great power. FB, Google+ and Twitter are places to get and share information about things that matter to me and I haven’t lost touch with my friends because of this.
The real value of social networks is the power of getting our voices heard by people in and outside our network. Things that matter are often repeated outside our own networks, making information we want to get out available to a lot more people than we can imagine.
For example Arab Spring happened largely because information was spread in Facebook straight from the source in a matter of seconds, instead of waiting for the 6 o’clock news fed by mainstream media. Governments are actually afraid of this new power that regular folks like us have today thanks to social media. We shouldn’t underestimate that power but instead take advantage of it.
