Nayyem says he chose Facebook over its Russia-based rivals, Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, because Facebook in Ukraine is used by the elite, the opinion-makers
I spoke with Nayyem on Wednesday and asked him what had changed. He said the conflict in Ukraine was between the Soviet-era television generation and today's Internet generation.
Facebook, he said, is democratic because it allows for instant, horizontal communication among people who trust each other and who consider themselves social equals. By contrast, television is better suited for the kind of Soviet-style, top-down, vertical communication that politicians of Yanukovych's generation are comfortable with.
