Anonymous
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/7763239/Australians-beginning-to-turn-on-Facebook
Australians beginning to turn on Facebook
Australians are beginning to turn on Facebook, with an increasing number of users rejecting the culture of "narcissism and self-absorption" they say it promotes, according to the latest snapshot of the nation's mind and mood.
mikiem2
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Interesting read - Thanks
I don't know non-US media outlets, but in the US I doubt you'd find many, perhaps none at all that would publish anything that said people are turning away from Facebook -- they'd either ignore it or say the original report said something it didn't. I think that's chiefly because saying people are leaving or abandoning Facebook might upset remaining Facebook fans, & that could cut down on their readership or viewers. It's a strict taboo to even hint at offending anyone unless they belong to a select list of groups -- then it's politically correct.
Personally I also found a couple of other paragraphs especially interesting:
But while some fear the middle class could be squeezed "out of existence", there is also a recognition that negative sentiment, rather than reality, is driving the national mood.
One participant compared the global economy to a hospital, saying: "Europe's on life support, the US is in the general ward and Australia is in the ward for hypochondriacs."
Both are are huge topics this election cycle, & everything written or on TV portrays the extremes... it's interesting to me to see how other parts of the world see this stuff.
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