Tag: social media

Washington Post “report” by Regine Cabato claiming Twitter suspended pro-Duterte accounts is MISLEADING

April 11, 2020 benign0 5 Comments

A Washington Post article authored by Philippine correspondent Regine Cabato claiming that “Twitter suspends accounts defending Philippine government response to coronavirus pandemic” seems to have been either taken down or has since been buried. The article was widely shared over social media yesterday. Opposition “thought leader” and self-described “social media expert” Noemi Dado, in a…

Media

Icarus crashing and burning: Where are the social media “influencers” now?

March 25, 2020 benign0 38 Comments

Back in the day (just weeks ago, before COVID-19 came to be regarded as a force of social disruption to reckon with) the familiar social media “influencer” call to action would echo out into the social media ether on late Friday afternoons: “Weekend starts NOW!” Today that call to action would sound quaint at best,…

Business, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Pasig City mayor Vico Sotto should just do his job without the fanfare and the grandstanding

March 20, 2020 benign0 27 Comments

The whole debate surrounding Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto has nothing to do with the quality of his governance. That too, nonetheless, is debatable but is better off left to another article for another day. Here we will discuss the trouble with the disproportionate amount of media exposure Sotto is getting. Vico Sotto is making waves…

Development, Glitz and Glamour, Government

Unless social media changes, it will continue to make people dumber instead of smarter

January 7, 2020 benign0 7 Comments

Social media is proving to be less and less effective at delivering across important messages in an increasingly complex world. The trend towards more digestible but, as a consequence, less substantial content shared on social media started back in the mid- to late-2000s when “microblogging” sites like Twitter started ramping up in popularity. As more…

Society, Tech Talk

“Ok snowflake” rhymes better than “Ok boomer”

November 9, 2019 benign0 9 Comments

Anybody who’s been on Twitter a lot over the last several days will now have seen the latest fashionable catchphrase “Ok boomer” really taking off. The term “boomer” is short for “Baby Boomer”, a term used to refer to the generation of Americans born within the decade right after World War II ended. It has…

Society

Time for Globe and Smart to stop giving Filipinos unlimited Facebook access

November 3, 2019 benign0 7 Comments

It’s time. Many Filipinos and their “thought leaders” have been criticising the role social media giant Facebook had supposedly been playing in skewing political chatter. Many argue that it had become a platform for “disinformation” and “fake news”. More importantly — in particular, to the oligarchs who are losing money in their once-profitable media businesses…

Lifestyle, Media, Tech Talk

Bookshop Owner Hits Social Media Shallowness

November 3, 2019 ChinoF 4 Comments

Being an avid reader, I couldn’t help but jump for joy when an independent, inexpensive bookshop opens up nearby. That was my feeling upon finding Bookay-Ukay at Maginhawa street in Teacher’s Village, Quezon City some years ago. It has inexpensive books, mostly older, outdated pieces, but still nice to read. I especially go for the…

Culture