Clare Curran continues to show us why she is the Queen of New Zealand Political Social Media, by focusing ont he things that matter…like international kissing day:
Cactus Kate gave her something to forget that tweet though:
Clare Curran, once again proving that Twitter is never good news for politicians.
Blogging is funny…there are many days when I am writing about something or other and I read in my feeds a post that supports, enlightens or opposes what it was that I was writing about.
Today is no different. This morning I blogged about a stalker, and this afternoon I sat down to go through Mashable and they have an article about fake Facebook profiles and who typically sets them up.
I think the research is flawed. Mostly the people who set up fake profiles are creepy, bunny boiler type personalities intent on stalking. They are up to no good…they are either watching what you are up to but in a sneaky way knowing that due to their own crazy personality flaws and insane behaviour that you would never friend them if you knew who they were.
It is the same kind of behaviour that jealous and bitter ex-wives/husbands exhibit watching every move that their former partner does like they are some sort of crazed minder of their business. Then one day out the blue they just nut off blowing their cover and proving why in reality they are sad, friendless losers and have to pretend otherwise.
I had a mate who used to complain about his ex-wife’s new boyfriends, car, house etc…till I told him to get over himself, he gave her the flick and still he is thinking about her. Close the door and move on….or get back with them if you are so obsessed with their every move.
Then there are the “friends” that simply collect “friends”, the more in the news, or famous of high profile the better. Again this behaviour says more about them that it does about me.
Facebook does provide challenges though. I advise anyone who asks, especially politicians that Facebook is not a place for proselytizing your ideas. You are either talking with sychophants who agree with your every word or the enemy who are sitting waiting for our next social media screw up. Facebook for politicians should be tight, controlled and family and real friends only.
But then again we are only human and we fall for the trap of faux-popularity. My personal policy is to put it all out there…that way you can’t be blackmailed, can;t be accused of something you aren’t and you are never worried about what someone might say or think.
A good rule of thumb is never put anything on Facebook that you wouldn’t put on a postcard…a little dated I know but it still holds true. The point is that anyone can get what you have on Facebook, it just takes time and these days not much of that.
For some reason I missed this but Jane Clifton has some good advice for politicians, and in particular labour politicians addicted to social media:
STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD: MPs’ command of the social media is a fine thing – up to a point. Alas, too many have made themselves look uncharacteristically boorish and petty through ill-considered cyber-blurts. Labour’s usually good-natured Darien Fenton slagged the much-loved Sir Peter Leitch for being too friendly with the evil Tories and even suggested a boycott of his butcher shops. It’s a tragically short hop from Twitter to twit, but the lure of instant gratification is dangerously over-stimulating for most MPs.
Another victim was Trevor Mallard, goaded into a bike race by right-wing blogger Cameron Slater. Mallard won comfortably, but as Slater cheerfully characterises such encounters, the trouble with wrestling with pigs is that you get dirty, while the pigs absolutely love it. Repeat to self before posting: These golden words will be public and permanent. Do I really want history to record that I called someone a weasily little scrote?
This pig had fun last year.
Clare Curran thought she was being cute. She wrote a haiku to John Hartevelt, Labour’s fan-boy at Fairfax:
Though our aim divine/
The delivery human/
A labour of loveA haiku about Red Alert dedicated to John Hartevelt
Readers of Red Alert felt inspired, like Danyl McLauchlan:
As the dying eel
drifts to the sea floor
Labour drifts into social media
…and Chris Trotter:
The summer rains fall,
Hopes for better weather fade,
Shearer says nothing.
Yeah, not sure that the haiku was a good idea Clare.
We know the Maritime Union is a blokefest, they currently have a couple of members before the employment courts for the sexist and racist attitudes.
Maybe this racist could possibly get a job with the Maritime Union:
A young Auckland man, who contributed to a racially charged online conversation, will keep his job but has learned a valuable lesson about social media.
An Australian blogger called for Auckland restaurant Urban Turban to be boycotted this week after an employee was involved in a racist tirade against Aborigines on Facebook.
Many of the online comments were aimed at a young Aboriginal girl pictured in a poster encouraging greater education for Aborigines.
Urban Turban employee Brian Castello wrote “maybe don’t live in remote aborigine communities, then your kids can read”.
A manager at the restaurant, Glenn, said he had spoken to Castello and other staff about the dangers of posting comments online that could be linked to their employer.
“I don’t think the remark merited him losing his job.
“We have had a conversation about our policies. I have made it clear to him to remove us an employer on Facebook,” he said.
Glenn, who declined to give his surname, said Castello is young and impressionable and may not have realised how his comment may be interpreted.
As an employer, he said he was reluctant to force his views on staff or censor them in their personal lives.
“But it has highlighted what is required of staff in terms of social media and public persona.”
We all know about Trevor Mallard’s apalling ineptitude when it comes to social media own goals. He has been pretty quiet over the holidays so maybe he has been advising UK Labour on a series of their own SMOGs:
Labour MP, Tom Harris, has been forced to resign as the party’s new media adviser after creating a spoof video comparing Adolf Hitler’s final days with Alex Salmond’s machinations over the referendum on Scottish independence.
Tom Harris, who had a popular blog, uploaded to the internet a parody based on the 2004 movie Downfall, which shows Hitler ranting at generals and senior Nazis in his bunker during the collapse of the Third Reich.
The Glasgow South MP used the clip, which has previously been spoofed to mock a series of high-profile figures, to poke fun at Mr Salmond’s secrecy over the referendum.
He also mocked the First Minister for refusing to sack his parliamentary aide, Joan McAlpine, who last week suggested that any political parties that oppose the Scottish National Party are “anti-Scottish”.
The spoof was posted on Saturday and titled ‘Joan’s Downfall’, but Mr Harris was forced to quit his new media post last night following talks with Johann Lamont, Labour’s Scottish leader.
In a statement, he said: “The video I posted has been a well-worn joke used to parody a range of public figures.
“However, context is everything and in the context of Joan McAlpine’s statements about all political opponents of the SNP being anti-Scottish, my actions have been an unhelpful distraction for which I apologise.”
He can’t have learned that well though because he went all soft and apologised, which is something Trevor would never do.
It isn’t rocket science, maybe this will help Labour understand:
via Peter FitzSimons
All Black coach Graham Henry on the latest revolution in social media: “I had to find out what bloody Twitter was. I thought it was a new guy playing five-eighth for England.”
Note that when he did find out he banned his players from using it during the World Cup.
Pretty sound counsel for Trevor Mallard, don’t you think?
It looks like Labour has seconded Trevor Mallard to advise Vladimir Putin with his forays into the online world. He is certainly having all the same luck as the Duck:
Within moments of Vladimir Putin launching his campaign website today, calls for him to resign and drop his bid for Russian Presidency were so large that officials had to limit public access andcontinued to live in denial blame hackers. If we were better at Russian (luckily many sitesare adept) or if the Putin campaign hadn’t limited public access, we’d be able to tell you more about the messages and less about the website’s majestic aesthetic. Radio Free Europe has more on the messages which flooded the site. They ranged from “Please leave politics,” to “I’m tired of you. I’ve already tolerated you for 12 years and it’s still the same” before the Putin campaign culled the comments. ”All this fuss with calls for resignation is a kind of computer game that children are playing at. It has nothing to do with constructive dialogue,” Putin’s spokesman said in a Reuters report. He also mentioned that most of the anti-Putin messages were a result of email spam (cue that Russian/.ru email spam joke). Of course Putin’s hacker attack excuse is just more proof of agovernment feigning denial or knowledge of massive anti-Putin sentiment in the country, which has been pretty hard for anyone to ignore.
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