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In hindsight, it was inevitable. Facebook, which began life as an innocuous social networking site for Harvard students, has now become a theatre of war, and a record of war. Of the Syrian Civil War, to be precise. Facebook management doesnt know what to do about it, but they are going to have to think of something fast.
Feb. 4 articles by Michael Pizzi in The Atlantic and by Matthew Ingram on the Gigaom.com site have reported that Facebook pages belonging to various Syrian opposition groups are being taken down wholesale, apparently because their content violates Facebook content rules. According to Pizzi, the tendency was first spotted by Ottawa-based cyber-security consultants SecDev Group, who have compiled a list of dozens of pages belonging to opposition citizen-journalism outfits or non-aligned NGOs that have reportedly been shuttered since last fall for posting what Facebook deemed to be graphic imagery or calls to violence.
British blogger and Syrian armaments specialist Elliot Higgins, a.k.a. Brown_Moses, tweeted on Feb. 4 that Ive been looking into the August
21st Sarin attack and thanks to Facebook, nearly every Facebook page reporting
on the attack is gone / This means that key information about the initial
reports of the attack and photographs are gone.
Higgins told me on Feb. 6 that I come across deleted pages all the time in my research, sometimes it seems like 75%+ are gone. He says the same applies to YouTube. He has also compiled a list of missing pages relating to the Aug. 21 gas attack.
Higgins believes, and statements from Facebook executives reported by Ingram support, that the deletions are not being done with malice, but as a result of what Higgins calls (deletion) policies not suited to the current climate. In other words, the activists are posting ghastly pictures of atrocities and Facebook, whether manually or automatically, is taking them down. The problem is that in doing so, they are destroying original and irreplaceable historical records.
Ive seen some of it; probably many readers have too. Its horrifying, grotesque. So is the Syrian Civil War and its getting more horrifying every day. You wouldnt want to see it on your childs social networking site. You wouldnt even want to see it at the Nuremburg Trials, though hopefully some of the perpetrators might be tried at The Hague one day. But not if original evidence is missing, deleted from history through the law of unintended consequences.
Social media have been becoming more and more central to the recording indeed, the creation of history for about the past five years. The tendency was probably first seriously noted in the Iranian Green Revolution of 2009, the (failed) Twitter Revolution against Ahmedinejads crooked re-election. For some years before, extremist groups like al-Qaida, the Taliban and the Caucasus Emirate had been posting atrocity propaganda on social media and they still do, but that is a horse of another colour, partly (be it admitted) because there is a far smaller Western audience for it. The Arab Spring captivated a wide Western audience through social media, and social media is now almost the only means of monitoring what is going on in Syria and then only thanks to dedicated activists, specialist bloggers like Higgins, and specialist consultants like SecDev. Most of the posted materials are and will remain the only historical record. If they survive.
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In the final part of the series on How to find your NEXT job, Ketan Kapoor, Co-founder and CEO, Mettl, underscores on how social networking sites can help you land up a job.
Read Part I HERE; Part II HERE, and Part III HERE.
Things to know before finding your next job
There are two basics, which look simple but most people tend to ignore them. Before finding your next job, you must assess your skill-sets.
The second important check is whether your skills match the requirements of the new job.
Preparations while looking for a new job
Ensure that your resume is up to date with all the projects in the previous assignment.
Your LinkedIn profile should be up to the mark as well.
If there are profiles on other job sites, then they need to be updated too.
Start talking to your immediate network about openings and start setting alerts for the kind of openings you are looking out for.
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Creating a website is a great way to promote a business or start a personal brand, but making something that looks professional for cheap can be difficult. There are templates online that can help guide you through web design and blog formats while keeping a website looking simple and clean.
However, for those wanting to start from scratch, web design can be trickier. You can hire a web designer to create something unique but, depending on how complicated you want it to be, that could cost quite a bit of money. Instead, you can download free software, which will hold your hand through the various steps of programming, or sit back and let you do your thing.
Here is a list of the best free web design software for different skill levels, from beginners to experts.
Before you set out to design a website, it is important to first snag a domain name. Take a look at our list of the best places to register for domain name registrars. This software does require basic knowledge of programming and coding. If youre not quite ready for that, take a look ourbest free and paid website builders.
Best for: Beginners who prefer to work from templates
Because this is the free version of the original software, which will run you $79,it doesnt have all the features that come with the full version. That being said, it still has enough tools to build a fully functioning site. It includes a Help feature which can walk a beginner through set up and design, and it includes templates that you can tweak if youre wary of programming. You can easily turn off this help function if you already feel comfortable with your web design coding talents.
Best for: Beginners and those needing bilingual websites
Komodo Edit, which is part of the Active State suite, is great for basic HTML and CSS work. Though it doesnt have as many features as CoffeeCup, it is a great way for beginners to play around with some more interesting coding tricks. One of Komodos best features is its simple method for adding different languages and special characters. This is a great fit for a bilingual company or anyone trying to expand their reach around the world.
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