Facebook app “I am Green” - 07 Aug 2007

logo_facebook-rgb-7inch-320.jpgSocial networking websites are sprouting up around the globe faster than we can keep up with them. It’s no wonder that small companies have found a new “gold rush” in supplying a wide variety of innovative tools and services for their members. Each promising newer and more amazing features so that their members can create better and more personalized “windows” of themselves. (Makes me think of all those quaint storefronts in Salzburg, Austria at Christmas.)

I belong to quite a few of them and have tested many of the “options & gadgets” that are offered. One of them has just caught my eye – I AM GREEN available on FACEBOOK.

Residing under the “Applications” section of the FACEBOOK site, this option to lets you check off eco-actions (or leaves, as they call it) to indicate the things you typically do in favor of the planet. These engagements then show up on your profile and you can then invite your “Facebook friends” to join you. It has spiraled into over 24,500 users and over 700,000 different “leaves”!

And while creating personal “windows” on social networking sites may be a fad, “greenness” is most likely here to stay. Everyday, more and more people are changing the way they live and once they do, they are not turning back. I for one am very happy to see that Facebook is providing people with an opportunity to express themselves in different ways.

The people behind I AM GREEN state; “When we commit to doing something good, we inspire each other to do that, and more.”

They must have read my mind.

Posted by: andrew
Tags: technology, society, community, environment

 

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by Bob
on 31 Aug 2007

I was scrolling the checkboxes list of the application, about how far I am green, when I found this statement : “I (will) have no more than 1 child, or I will adopt additional children.” And I removed the “I am green” application from my Facebook profile… Just installed, already removed !

I think this statement is not far from “extremism”. It’s like another statement I’ve already read in another place: “I will not buy music, but play my own music”. I want to go green, but not that way…

 

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