Wednesday, February 23, 2011

"Facebook, my daughter"

Maybe in a few years the small Ibrahim Facebook to account to the parents of this choice. Or maybe in a few years, it will be normal even in Italy to call their sons WWW, YouTube, or Google. The fact is that in Egypt, Facebook was born Feb. 18, a girl who bears the same name in gratitude to his parents for the role that the social network has played in the February 11 uprising culminated with the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak .

This was reported by the newspaper Al-Ahram, explaining that Jamal Ibrahim has named his first child to express his gratitude to the young people who have put up a government in power for 23 years. The social network, as well as other online tools, has played a crucial role in preparing and coordinating the revolution that began January 25 (for the story is already "the revolution of Facebook").

The Egyptians, in which five million have their profile on the website blue (more than any other country in the Middle East and North Africa) have used social networks to organize protests, disseminating information and maintaining contact with foreign countries. We must add, to be fair, that Facebook has not given any heat as citizens of the world are using their boards for political purposes (the manager of Egyptian Wael Google Ghonim, officially endorsed by the search engine, has instead played a role From the first decisive in making the protest online, and then to apply force to the demands of democracy with a speech on TV).

Undoubtedly, many will turn up their nose at the use of a 2.0 mark as a proper name. But in Italy there are particular names: Brenda and Dylan (in homage to Beverly Hills) through Chanel and Nathan Falco. And there are many grandparents who have the name "social idea" printed on his identity card.

"Facebook" is worse? The debate is open.

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