RE: the HRC logo

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Facebook wrote a preliminary report.  The map I find most interesting:  www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/showing-support-for-marriage-equality-on-facebook/10151430548593859





Annual report stuff, I told ya

[vicky]

:*)

My sister told me yesterday that it makes no difference. I told her that it does. I'm so glad that it actually does.

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One of my gay friends wrote a whole diatribe thanking people for changing it. That made me feel like the support was worth showing even in such a tiny way.

[suzyp]

I find the very dark red section of Arizona really interesting.

[discogranny]

I love Austin and that dark red splotch in the heart of Texas.

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Mar 29, 2013 13:22:43 GMT -5 frkls said:

h's gay cousin brought his partner to h's grandfather's funeral yesterday. they live in atlanta and don't see the rest of the family unless it's for something big like this. i don't think anybody has ever been explicitly mean to them, but they feel like they just don't fit in. cousin's partner and i hung out for a while at the lunch afterwards and before he left, he asked if he could add me as a fb friend. he took out his phone right there and searched my name and my red hrc sign profile pic popped up. he said, "is that you?!?" and hugged me.

I love this!

[iammalcolmx]

I am pretty sure that dark red dot in Georgia is the City of Atlanta.

[litebright]

I liked the end quote:

"For a long time, when people stood up for a cause and weren't all physically standing shoulder to shoulder, the size of their impact wasn’t immediately apparent. But today, we can see the spread of an idea online in greater detail than ever before. That’s data well worth finding."

I know some people think it's slactivism, but I think of it more as a reflection of a very real statistic, that a (narrow) majority of Americans support equal rights for marriage. It's a different kind of insight, more personal than the results of a phone poll. There used to be talk of the "silent majority," but with things like FB as an easy outlet for small gestures that reflect a larger paradigm, I think it's easier for people to be less silent about where their support lies.