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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Facebook - Unknown to Most Cubans

Facebook: Unknown to Most Cubans / Jorge Olivera Castillo
Posted on October 14, 2013

HAVANA, Cuba , October, www.cubanet.org – In the program "Passage to the
Unknown" — Sunday nights on Cubavision — they aired a documentary that
showed that young Cubans are last in line in the digital world.

Among surprised and crazy faces, the segment showed a young woman on the
street gathering opinions about Facebook, a topic addressed in the
program by the journalist Reinaldo Taladrid, and "specialists," among
whom appeared the defender of official censorship: Iroel Sánchez.

To the question: Do you know what Facebook is? The few successes came
from tourists and foreign students studying on the island.

In my neighborhood, he threw out the the question: What is Twitter?

For Alexander, a young high school student, Facebook could be a
character in an adventure film. Rolando, however, a forest engineer with
20 years experience, is convinced that it is something related to auto
racing.

What a horror! It makes you want to cry, or something worse.With the
delay in using such a tool as essential as Facebook, who's going to
believe in the development of Cuba.

That young Cubans don't know the social network that brings together a
billion people, in 70 languages, shows the digital and technological
backwardness of our country.

Emerging countries such as Brazil, India, Indonesia and Mexico are among
the biggest users of Facebook, which forces us to recognize that we are
lagging behind the digital world. We are at the back of the line of
modernity.

We are an island frozen in time! Meanwhile the government remains
committed to the internal blockade to maintain its absolute power.

The regime is not only leaving us as its legacy a country in ruins. In
addition to the collapse of ethical and moral values, they are leaving
us mired in digital illiteracy, with the goal of keeping themselves in
power.

Jorge Olivera Castillo

From Cubanet 10 October 2013

Source: "Facebook: Unknown to Most Cubans / Jorge Olivera Castillo |
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