social media
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Facebook freedom index
Re-ranking nations’ Facebook use by population, the poster notes India’s penetration is still low, that absentees include China and Pakistan, and uses it to say something about freedom, rights-conscious Americans…
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Society
The Lion Queen
A woman fills the car of two men with mud after they splash her, a viral story the poster praises as a model for India’s need for lion queens.
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Science
Facebook issues an OK-OK apology
A news report on Sheryl Sandberg’s apology for Facebook’s news feed experiment on 700,000 users, introduced with a sarcastic comment that the apology blamed poor communication and promised nothing about…
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Culture
Comments I’ve left around the web
The poster says blogging is re-consolidating into professional writing while social media takes back the amateur blogger, so will post the comments left around the web with links.
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Mossad + (jewish controlled) Twitter = Victory!!!
Noting claims that Twitter won the election for Modi and a Congress leader’s claim that Mossad did, the poster mockingly joins the two into a conspiracy chain, while remarking on…
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Indians getting drunk on Twitter
The poster comments on a PayPal executive sacked after abusive tweets his colleagues read as drunken, noting the backlash against Indian men, and suggests a Modi regime without drinking might…
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Selfie (833AM), self-less (834AM)
A warning against taking selfies, texting or posting while driving, prompted by a news extract on a woman killed in a US head-on collision seconds after updating her status.
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Science
500 mil Speedsters on the (Whats App) Freeway
A short comment on WhatsApp passing 500 million users, with growth led by India and Brazil, noting that nobody yet knows how to monetise the app; an extract from WhatsApp’s…
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1 Bil fighters for Mother India
A post on Facebook’s push to reach a billion Indian users during the elections, noting Modi’s large online following, with a swipe at the claim that American firms feed Hindutva.
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Little blue bird, zindabad
A note on Turkey’s attempt to block Twitter backfiring as users circumvented the ban, amid suspicion that Erdogan was suppressing corruption allegations.
