In an effort to bring together opposing sides in some of the most bitterly divided areas of the planet, encouraging online friendships between Jews and Muslims, US liberals and conservatives, and Turks and Greeks, social networking giant Facebook launches the “Peace on Facebook” hub as part of the “Peace Dot” movement. The Internet company said it’s passionate in “promoting peace by building technology that helps people better understand each other” and “by enabling people from diverse backgrounds to easily connect and share their ideas, we can decrease world conflict in the short and long term.”
The Peace on Facebook website features several interesting graphs and a live stream widget which allows Facebook users to share their thoughts and opinions about peace and technology. The charts highlight the volume of friend connections created each day between people of different countries, religions, and political groups. In the past 24 hours, the site revealed that there had been 5,189 Israel-Palestine connections; 8,088 Albania-Serbia connections; 6,809 India-Pakistan connections, and 12,824 Greece-Turkey Connections.
Surprisingly, according to the results of Facebook’s daily poll, only 8.97% U.S users believe world peace is achievable within 50 years. Meanwhile, 35.0% and 29.5% users from Colombia and Taiwan are optimistic.