NATO and Facebook Join Forces in the Global Digital Age screams the Blog headline. I am reading the Tech page of The Huffington Post on 19 April 2012. I reread, assuming that the announcement is a hoax, but when I see that the authors are Dr. Stefanie Babst and Elizabeth Linder, I know that it is not. Not a hoax. I think not. Yet the proposed unity seems too practical to be real. A major political alliance is working with a profitable digital social network. This ought to be interesting.
According to The Huffington Post, "Dr. Stefanie Babst is NATO’s Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy"; Elizabeth Linder is Facebook’s Politics & Government Specialist for the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions." And they explain: "In pursuing our efforts to contribute to this global conservation, we -- two individuals at Facebook and NATO -- have started to collaborate. Because we believe that instruments of diplomacy, no matter how hard or how soft -- or how smart, for that matter -- bring people together." WOW! At the end of the blog, a gloss cautions:
"Their views expressed are solely their own and do not represent the official views of NATO or Facebook."So what is going on?
The blog is a collaborative post that begins by predicting how this digital age will appear in future history texts for school students. Delightfully optimistic, the two authors state that history will foreground
