Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is...
by jrockway on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @07:08PM
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Not every person on earth uses Google. There are still continents where the major concern for most people is living past 30. The Internet is not even on their radar.
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Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is...
by Tsagadai on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @11:54PM
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I take it you don't travel much. You need to go to very small, very poor and extremely remote villages before you find no internet connections or people who are aware of computers. I have found a grand total of one, ever. I've visited unpowered, tribal villages of people who had no obvious access to western goods (no modern synthetic clothes, limited plastic, only a couple of steel items) but still knew what a computer programmer was when I told them my occupation. The world is remarkably modern and globalised now so try to update your previous century's vision of it.
Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is...
by jrockway on Thursday July 07, 2011 @09:19AM
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So you're saying these people use Google? Because that's what my post is referencing.
Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is...
by ez77 on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @07:18PM
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Which continents? I wouldn't have asked had you used a singular term.
Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is...
by ez77 on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @07:58PM
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I'm puzzled by the downvote... There is plenty of granularity within every country, let alone every continent. But even allowing some rough generalizations, [1] shows that Africa is the only firm candidate for such an assertion.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...
Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is...
by Impossible on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @07:54PM
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He's exaggerating. Even in Africa most countries have a life expectancy over 30 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_Expectancy_2011_Estim...), at least according to the CIA World Factbook. Even then in most African countries life expectancy averages are cut short because the high number of HIV infections.
OP had a good point though, not everyone in the world uses Google, and not even all of the 2 billion internet users use Google.
Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is...
by executive on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @07:53PM
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Antarctica is the obvious one.. I'd guess Africa is the other.
Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is...
by ez77 on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @08:04PM
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If anything Africa is the closest to being obvious. Antartica doesn't qualify, as it has no permanent population [1]. Even if it did, its non-permanent population is so many orders of magnitude behind the rest [2] that its inclusion in the original term 'continents' would be clearly misleading.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_continents_by_populatio...