It's the concept of social networks as we understand it that is outdated.

Facebook and Myspace before it where nothing more than personal PR firms where an individual could whitewash the dirt out of their life in order to present a dishonest version of who they are and what they are doing.

People can never be truly "social" in this environment. In fact they can't even be real people.

"Social Networking" will die. It will go back to what it was before the failed attempt to force us all into an online "I.D. Card".

People will have their steam friends, where they share their love of gaming, their skype lists for collaboration with professional contemporary's, and what ever else in the realm of interest focused social tools might pop up.

This is the most important point. "Interest focus". There is no need for people who share common interest to whitewash their lives (or even mention it unless they feel inclined). It is something facebook and every other attempted social network has completely failed at.

I fear that in some way, facebook has been bleeding into reality. That somehow people have begun living the cleaned and marketed lives they created for themselves on facebook, and in some way we have begun to loose a very important truth about relationships.

You cannot love, or even like someone unless you can love their faults.

Here's the thing about the midwest.

All the people seem nice on the outside. On the inside they are the most vile example of demons walking the earth in human form you could ever hope to never encounter.

Every Midwestern person that is not living in a metropolitan area like Chicago or Indianapolis is basically a soulless sack of rotting shit wrapped in a burlap sack painted gold.

Being two faced is the norm for these people. Especially in small towns. They will know your business, and any business of yours they don't know they will fucking make up, and then tell everyone that isn't you.

Mrs. Magillicutty down the street will eventually become comfortable enough in your presence to include you in this little game of thrones, and tell you all about how George her neighbor is an Alcoholic welfare king that can't keep his hands off the girl at the photomat, and Jane Siemore says he might be a pedophile because he never leaves his house.

Meanwhile, two days later she'll be at George's house sipping an iced tea conversing about how she smelled pot in your living room.

Was there pot in your living room? WHO GIVES A FUCK I NEED SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT.

Welcome to the midwest.

On the topic of Annie, you have to understand there are going to be some people that think there are suspect intentions behind re-branding the two loveable "good" main characters as black, while leaving the "Evil" gold digging shrew of a wife a white woman.

Normally it wouldn't be an issue. In this day and age they could have gotten less controversy by making the "Wife" a black MAN.

But, the alteration of two of the characters in such a way brings race to the conversation, especially since they are both being cast as African Americans. I think if the little girl had been Asian, again, people are going to make less of an issue.

The act of re-casting the positive role models in the story as black people while casting the most negative character in the story as a white person could in fact be construed as an act of racism in itself.

I have no personal opinion on this, just my analysis. I could give a rats ass what stupid people do with their movie money.

We don't "evolve the ideals of free speech."

We have free speech. There is no "evolution".

We have it until we let someone take it from us. There is only one way to keep that from happening.

String up anyone who tries.

There is no grey area here. There is no "evolution" of our ideals in concern to murder. People have a right to life. There is no "evolution" in our ideals against rape. People have a right to walk down the street without being violently assaulted.

There is no "Evolution" in our ideals of free speech. People have a right to speak and question everything.

Anyone that tries to convince you we can "evolve" these rights, wants to try to "evolve" you right out of it.

I'm sorry, but you're trying to play him off as some sort of Jewish martyr fighting against a horde of anti-Semitic Nazi's, when there are clearly better and more pressing reasons for the problems he's having.

That kind of destroys your credibility.

It seems that, for truth or for naught, he's been fingered as a social engineer working for or with propaganda agents. I have to say, the anecdotal evidence is pretty damning.

Your post reads like a defense attorney trying to defend a guy who's been caught red handed and playing the "persecuted member of minority group "x" card".

EDIT: Obviously Kiebler took my advice, and decided that the minority card wasn't playing well in this, because he edited the post above this one after the fact.

Credit to you for recognizing your mistake and correcting it.

However, the claim that Bear wasn't the one that deleted the post is utterly fallacious. Reddit is a set of scripts running on a web server, and those scripts wright logs.

The logs say Bear deleted the posts, Froze the next post because he couldn't delete it (couldn't figure out how to accuse it of breaking any rules) waited till it hit rock bottom for lack of upvotes till a third post was made and took off.

Then he unfroze the now dead article posting, and froze the new one.

This is all pretty damning evidence.

A leak was sprung proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that intelligence agents on the government payroll have been covertly infiltrating social media sites like Reddit for the purpose of controlling public discourse through propaganda and misinformation.

All links to this information are taken down, users are banned from reddit for posting it, vote manipulation on these articles through freezes and releases, and other slimey things occur.

Reddit comes to the conclusion that not only is the article one hundred percent true, but it's happening right before their very eyes.

Queue Shitstorm.

Any other explanation of the situation is an attempt to obfuscate the issue.

I mean " IT has gone to the point of their obsession with him for just being Jewish and exposing the subreddit's hate for Jews".

REALLY?? Try harder.