Tag: social media

Detoxing from Big Corporate Social Media and a return to REAL “social networking”

December 21, 2018 benign0 3 Comments

As many of our closest followers know by now, we had recently launched GRPsupport.com (currently in BETA). It’s the equivalent of a home-cooked social networking meal with all-natural ingredients sourced from the Net’s most trusted organic digital farms and none of the artificial toxicity of the mass-produced “services” on offer in Big Corporate Social Media…

Media, Society, Tech Talk

Filipinos should seize the opportunity to define themselves on their own terms NOW

December 10, 2018 benign0 23 Comments

If there is something deeper that would characterise the last two to three years, it is an increased confusion around Filipinos’ sense of identity as a people. Filipinos no longer enjoy the benefit of being told who they are. This is thanks to the rise of the Net and, specifically, its killer app — social…

Development, Media, Society

We need to find a peacetime use for social media

November 23, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

Like most technologies that permeate society today, social media, as it turns out, originally came of age as a weapon. Though it was originally pitched as a peachy digital hangout for catching up with friends and as a platform for “activism” aimed at fostering “social good”, what it is really being used for today is…

Lifestyle, Media, Tech Talk

Maria Ressa’s obsession with Facebook is like that of a jilted lover over her ex

October 30, 2018October 30, 2018 benign0 21 Comments

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa just can’t stop once she gets started about Facebook. Indeed, she got started on Facebook way back when she threw a massive embrace around the gargantuan social media platform in the early days when she pitched her organisation as a “social news network”. Like many media organisations at the time, Rappler…

Media, Tech Talk

Women empowerment has made sexual harassment no longer a gender issue

October 8, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

Recent hints emerging of the less-than-wholesome corporate culture in the ABS-CBN newsroom have brought to fore this confronting topic. Women have always been seen to be the “victims” of society’s power games — an idea that owes its persistence to the position of power men commanded over much of human history. But with the expansion…

Society

Dealing With a Bleeding, Stabbed-With-Truth Ego

October 5, 2018 Moduli 13 Comments

It’s amusing and annoying at the same time reading comments on blogs such as this, that point out the idiocy and the reasons why Filipinos, collectively, have a hard time getting out of the mud that he loves wallowing into. Words like racist, butthurt, asshole are thrown by either side. Some have never-ending thread of retaliation…

Culture, Society

Filipinos have Mocha Uson and the Yellowtards have Jover Laurio. Who’s gonna win?

October 4, 2018 benign0 12 Comments

Now that former Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson is a private citizen, she can start blogging. Like a real blogger. Just like that other one who’s been styled by no less than Rappler and its community of Jesuit- and nun-educated cheerleaders as the preeminent blogger of the Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the…

Media, Politics

People who defend Tambays should open their subdivision gates to the public

June 25, 2018 Kate Natividad 25 Comments

Here’s another reason why we should not believe all those virtue-signalling millennials who are making a lot of noise about President Duterte’s anti-Tambay police campaigns. Many of these “socially-aware” libtards actually live in gated subdivisions complete with mean-looking shotgun-wielding security guards. These guards have orders to screen people and vehicles entering the subdivisions of their…

Lifestyle, Society