Facebook app only provides free access to Facebook, Facebook Messenger and a handful of other services. According to Timothy Garton Ash, Quartz Magazine reported that, "In Nigeria, Indonessia, India and Brazil, more than half of those asked in a poll commissioned by Quartz magazine agreed with the statement: Facebook is the Internet.
"Surveys have found a large number of respondents saying they use Facebook than they use the Internet".
The future of work depends on the Internet. Our governments at various levels must step up their commitments to providing this 21st century infrastructure to enable its citizen key into the new way of work and living. Democracy is not just about elections.
The Internet enables creativity and innovation, entrepreneurship. 'Wherever there is internet connection there is a potential enterprise'. Facebook is working very hard to reach disadvantaged societies with internet through their https://info.internet.org/en/ project, however, it provides more free access to their services.
Our political leaders should do more to provide internet access and facilities to young people especially in the rural areas to kick-start innovation and enterprise instead of deploying them to various Social Media platforms to advance party lines and attack those that disagree with them. We must have political leaders who invest in the future of its young people not just the next election.
Uche Okeke.
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