Kommentare zu: Germany. Why this country really sucks once in a while.

Von: Rattenfänger. Germany and the Birth of Digital Populism. | davaidavai.com

Rattenfänger. Germany and the Birth of Digital Populism. | davaidavai.com — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:24:28 +0000

[...] Germany has no real tradition in embracing digital media or collaborate freely in the web. It took a while until Facebook became kind of mainstream and we are always lagging behind a bit compared to the UK or the US. The case Guttenberg changed that at least in the public political spectrum. Thanks to support by Bild public opinion was on Guttenberg’s side from the beginning of the scandal with a public approval rathe of more than 70% even after the first allegations became public. For two weeks he struggled to stay minister. A process that was accompanied by two web campaigns [...]

Von: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:58:00 +0000

True? I am German and this article was primarily about Germany’s mistrust in tech. I don’t consider Germans to be more racist than other nations. Actually rather less. Why do you think this is the case?

Von: cat hammocks

cat hammocks — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:08:00 +0000

i am not american and not european ,but i can confirm that germany really sucks 100% true.people are just racist,they discriminate even again each other a german from bayren is not like a german from north or ost!!!. So sad.

Von: ghensel

ghensel — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:59:21 +0000

How often have you been to Germany?

Von: Alaskan

Alaskan — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:57:54 +0000

German people are as negative as can be and they are against almost everything, at least when they are over 30.
Their tv is serving this negativity by showing them how bad and ugly the world outside their living room is.
That's what german people love – dwelling in negativity!

Von: ghensel

ghensel — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:30:30 +0000

Hi Kate, I think…..no…umm….yes. Basically it's pretty hard to come to a conclusion because they use different metrics to prove that either FB or VZ are the biggest to date. You don't speak German, right? Because this article says Facebook has 5.7 million registered users in Germany (http://facebookmarketing.de/zahlen_fakten/faceb…) in Jan 2010. The VZ Group in comparison reports 15 million users on all three platforms combined (http://wiki.opensocial.org/index.php?title=VZ-N…). According to this report from last week Facebook leads in monthly users. We talk about 11 million vs 6 (FB vs Studi VZ) in Dec 2009 (http://meedia.de/nc/details-topstory/article/fa…). To sum it up…Facebook is about to take the lead. And they will probably dominate the German market pretty soon.

Von: Kate

Kate — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:16:12 +0000

I'm researching social networking in different countries worldwide. This article along with the previous one you posted and the original one over at readwriteweb have been a help to me in getting an overview. But, not speaking German, I'm having trouble finding recent (2009ish) data about the relative size of different social networking sites in Germany. The best I can come up with is from 2008 from Ethority. Any links to send my way with more recent data and relative size of different social networks in DE? Is StudiVZ still bigger than Facebook?

thanks for any and all help.

Von: ghensel

ghensel — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:19 +0000

No comprende

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Von: AnnetteOchs

AnnetteOchs — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:34:56 +0000

yes, thats why in Berlin twitter is more fun by night…

Von: macmuc

macmuc — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:56:58 +0000

I'm a bit too young young and most likely missing the necessary experience to make a meaningful statement about the core of this topic. But I have two little things from my daily little student life:

I love history. And yes I often watch that sort "historical content that should make us smart enough that we're not becoming Nazis again". Guido Knopp and friends.
After watching them for a long time and reading many "real books" about the different topics I don't think they'll actually make us "smart" as in "intelligent".
They give us the facts and "tell the story" BUT they don't really urge us to "think"!

Same thing in school, we learn stuff from textbooks & teachers, get grades and so on.
I was in Australia for half a year and I went to school there. They gave us books, too. But they were' not full of "informations" they were full of "sources".
Other than in Germany the teachers didn't teach us about the "content" of the sources but rather how to interpret and analyze them.
Me and my German lack of "individual creativeness", to quote you article, were quite disturbed by that.
"Causeless paranoia" had made me "paranoid of everything new and different" ( straight from @jkleske in the comments)

Back here in good old Germany I now learn that all this knowing and "smart-ass" talking, also known as "Klugscheißerei", is especially common on the internet- often suddenly causing my to "fremdschäm".