Yet our collective social responsibility may force us to pause and ask about the relative tradeoffs among the people we serve.
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California is considering a bill that would force social networking sites to rejigger how they go about privacy settings for new users.
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That surplus is expected to end as early as 2015, and force Social Security to dip into other sources of government revenues to pay retirees.
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He wanted the Sandinistas to become a modern social-democratic force.
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The photogenic, Western-looking youth from Tahrir Square the Western media were thrilled to dub the Facebook revolutionaries were disgraced at the polls and exposed as an insignificant social and political force.
Mr Brown vigorously rejects one criticism that, these days, is sometimes aimed at New Labour, the pro-market social-democratic force of which, along with Tony Blair, his predecessor as prime minister, and Lord Mandelson, now the business secretary, he was a progenitor: that it was a fair-weather creed.
The president is supposed to be a monarch of sorts, and a force for social and political cohesion.
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Netflix, HP, Verizon and others learned that social media uprisings can force policy shifts in a matter of hours.
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They included doctors and police, but social workers bore the force of anger.
Why would Obama reduce entitlements that redistribute wealth when they force the social change he sees as his legacy?
His music aside, Criolo also is a force for social change in Brazil.
But the religion that Mr Obama embraced the religion of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King was a force for social reform.
Vivisimo has more than 140 customers which include Airbus, U.S. Air Force, Social Security Administration and the U.S. Navy, among others.
Twitter has been the dominant force in Social TV (at least from a public data point of view) and it grew organically.
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Online and offline freedom of expression is the foundation for democratic societies, a pillar of individual rights and a force for social transformation.
Steve Royston, a businessman based in Bahrain who blogs regularly on Gulf matters, believes that, though caution remains the byword, social media is a force for change.
Bebo said it also worked with a variety of organisations, including anti-bullying groups, the Home Office internet task force on social network, and the Department for Education.
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Far from being a force for social change, the military enlists far more people from the ranks of the poor because the poor often have no better alternatives.
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The departure of the Social Democratic Alliance would force a reconstruction of the government as party holds the defense and foreign affairs portfolios, and a deputy prime minister post.
The Director-General called on political leaders to build on the potential of culture as a force for social cohesion and dialogue: "The role of culture in development should be fully recognized by policy makers, especially at a time when the new development agenda is being defined, " she said.
They also agree that social media is an unstoppable force that adds speed and efficiency to just about everything.
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Revenge is still a powerful motivating force in Iraqi social life.
Images of mock dating profiles outlining potential suitors' real personalities are being hosted on the force's social media accounts in an effort to unmask abusers' behaviour.
Now for the twist: Kutcher, a multi-million fan-generating force of the social media world, has decided to not only list the for sale property online, but open the doors to money-making masses, via e-commerce site Gilt.com.
Similarly, Facebook and Twitter send login credentials over a secure line and then revert to an unsecure protocol. (Users of those social networks can add an "s" after "http" to force the systems to encrypt their browsing.) Social networking sites are where people increasingly conduct private conversations, whether through Facebook's Messages or Twitter's Direct Message feature.
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Social media, a very strong force in our lives, seemed the ideal way of connecting my fellow students.
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"It's indisputable that social networking sites can be a force for good in society, a truly positive and valuable mechanism, " he said.
The Internet can be a positive force for creating reinforcing social connections, and a negative for abuse of civil liberties and increasing polarization of opinion.
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