Not that I really want to defend the Lebanese on this issue (facebook use – ugh) but the point of As’ad Abu-Khalil’s post was that the Hariri-backed newspaper just discovered facebook. For better or worse, Lebanese young people have been blogging and social networking like crazy all along. The Lebanese blog aggregator is clogged with musings on Kuwaiti fast food, office politics, college exams, and love affairs. Since I have no use for either facebook or myspace, I don’t follow the Lebanese social network scene but of course they are on top of all of it. Flickr is full of arty photographs put up by Lebanese amateur and semi-pro photographers. You can buy Lebanese cartoon art at Cafe Press, emblazoned on coffee mugs. Etc.
It’s the Hariri paper that is the last to know. Abu-Khalil is making fun of the newspaper and of Hariri, Inc.’s propaganda machine.
The whole facebook/myspace thing seems so lame to me. Am I the only 24 year old on the planet without one of these lame-o accounts?
Not that I really want to defend the Lebanese on this issue (facebook use – ugh) but the point of As’ad Abu-Khalil’s post was that the Hariri-backed newspaper just discovered facebook. For better or worse, Lebanese young people have been blogging and social networking like crazy all along. The Lebanese blog aggregator is clogged with musings on Kuwaiti fast food, office politics, college exams, and love affairs. Since I have no use for either facebook or myspace, I don’t follow the Lebanese social network scene but of course they are on top of all of it. Flickr is full of arty photographs put up by Lebanese amateur and semi-pro photographers. You can buy Lebanese cartoon art at Cafe Press, emblazoned on coffee mugs. Etc.
It’s the Hariri paper that is the last to know. Abu-Khalil is making fun of the newspaper and of Hariri, Inc.’s propaganda machine.