Sunday, June 15, 2008

Unification through Social Networking


Many years ago, I briefly mentioned that this decade would be about unification. To be specific, in my first publication, I titled the booklet, "Naming the Decade - The Unification of the Unies." This little reference was about how this decade would make society more unified. We'll take a look at a few things that made this decade more unified.

First, many Social Networking sites were developed and exploded during this decade. Youtube (2005), Friendster (2002), Myspace (2003), Facebook (2004), just to mention a few. What these sites do is unify society. Through the sharing of photos, videos, information about themselves these sites really unify society. It seems to me, having a word like Unies for the decade name makes sense on different levels.

On the one level, a word for the decade merely tries to group the numbers between 0 and 9. Well, like we have said before, the uni is a numerical prefix meaning one and the numbers between 0 and 9 are all one digit. So the unies makes sense here.

On another level, naming a decade and giving a meaning for it is another aspect. It is true that this decade has brought societies and cultures together through technology than during any other decade. The unify or unification of cultures through these social networking sites can be seen during the Unies.

I will attempt to start a grassroots campaign using all the social networking sites. I will periodically give updates on my progress. Let's see how valuable social networking in the Unies has become.

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