<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - Networks]]> 10 <![CDATA[The pickpocket hunter, now in Cala Ratjada: records two alleged thieves following elderly people]]>

With the arrival of the tourist season, pickpockets are reappearing in the busiest spots in Mallorca. Promenades, markets, and areas with a large influx of visitors become usual settings for this type of theft each year, especially targeting tourists and the elderly.

]]> <![CDATA[The GOB warns of the increase in the spread of illegal activities in natural spaces of Mallorca on social networks]]>

The Balearic Ornithology and Nature Defense Group has reported an increase in the dissemination on social networks of unauthorized activities in protected natural areas of Mallorca, a practice it considers growing and which, it warns, puts conservation of the environment at risk and fosters a sense of impunity.

]]> <![CDATA[Content creators... you choose!]]> Whether from institutions, social forums, or personal opinions like the one you're reading now, there's a tendency to promote content creators in our language, eager to project a positive spirit and optimistic expectations regarding the health of the Catalan language, which we so often tend to view through a victim mentality, or even from a negative one. And it's important to do so! I recommend following the Parlars Mallorquins page, which began as a website focused almost exclusively on linguistics, dialectology, and other philological curiosities, and has become a national reference point, and I would even say an anti-capitalist one. I also like to follow what @CasHorrach says from time to time; he's quite witty, that guy. Or President Àngel Aguiló, whose words are as eloquent as they are forceful. These are our own cases, with a lot of influence on social media and which also resonate in conventional media, such as IB3, which finds a creative source of information and a connection to the reality of the internet—a reality that is no longer clear whether it also reflects the reality of the street or not.

]]> <![CDATA[10 rules for not being a digital cretin]]>

The internet is a blessing, a new Alexandria—affordable and global—within everyone's reach. One of humanity's greatest advances and an inexhaustible source of wisdom and functionality.

]]> <![CDATA[Hate and attention]]> Since the Rwandan genocide, we've known that the media can play a terrifying role in conveying messages of hate against certain minorities. "Hate radio," as it came to be known, was instrumental in instigating Hutus to go out and slaughter Tutsis with machetes, as was amply demonstrated before the International Criminal Court. This happened in the 1990s, but it goes without saying that social media may have played a similar role in other, reckless events, well into the 21st century, such as in 2017.

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