Tag: KIDNAPPED

Wael Ghonim, the Google engineer who was kidnapped and eventually released by the Egyptian regime, would apparently like to thank Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for making the revolution possible. "I want to meet Mark Zuckerberg one day and thank him," Ghonim told CNN, adding, quite humbly, that he was speaking "on behalf of Egypt." "This revolution started online," said the engineer who, it ...

While we do talk a lot about the dangers of Facebook, how it can alienate us from our fellow humans and cause overdoses of information (and the occasional stalker), every now and then a remarkable story about the power of connectivity crosses our desks. Twenty seven years ago, when British mother Avril Grube's ex-husband said he was taking their three-year-old son Gavin for a day trip, he ...