Virtual striptease

The most popular social network right now – Facebook – has begun leaving traces on Czech social life. Globally, this internet network attracts 150 million people for at least two hours a day to the screens of their computers. Even in the Czech Republic, we have interesting proof of the network's power. Within one day, for example, 16,000 people joined a group supporting the construction of Kaplický's library. Shortly after that, a demonstration attended by several thousand people was organized through the online group. While Facebook supporters were demonstrating in support of the blob by the avant-garde architect, a commissioner for justice, freedom, and security, Jacques Barrot, warned against internet community networks. Especially against young people exposing information about themselves.

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„I found my cousin from Vienna here, whom I haven't seen for 10 years. We have been in contact since then and we even visit each other,“ said Filipa Šebová, who created her Facebook profile as one of the first Czechs almost two years ago, when she found out about the new trend from her friend from Cambridge College. Thanks to this community network she is today in contact with family and friends all over the world: „I would never write letters to my distant aunt in Columbia,“ she said, "but on Facebook I can see not only what she's doing, but sometimes I…