I love my new job. I've already in the short time that I've worked there got to me some really interesting people. Tonight I meant to genocide survivors 1 from the congo and 1 from rwanda. After speaking with him for dinner afterwards I realize that the need of some other people are so much simpler than what we think. The young man from the condo, justin, was in need of something very simple to help his cause. He wants to make a documentary about the crimes going on in the congo in all he needs is a good camera. And all he wants is the laptop to make the movie with. I was so moved by talking with him about what he needs an the congo then I decided to talk with others to make it happen. Now working with other groups and religious organization, we're gonna do some fundraisers and thinking and make it happen for him.
What I got in the car, I heard an interview on npr about social media. They talked about the need of social media and cultures obsession with twitter and facebook. They talked about what it is to tweet too much and to go on facebook too much. I wondered, is this our biggest problem in our society? I just spent an hour talking about the congo war people are being murdered for belonging to the wrong tribe. Americans only seem to care about things when it's convenient for them. Is a hypocritical that I'm posting this on a blog? I don't think so. I think this social media can be good if you the right way. If I use it to let you know about raising money to get this young man a camera it's a good thing. If I tweet to tell you what I had for breakfast I should probably stop and think. I've said it before, technology is a double edge sword.
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