Comments on: Laburisti Ukburin: he’s from Georgia

By: Not Sandy:P

Not Sandy:P — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:55:59 +0000

Here’s one lot that can be reported under Facebook’s rules:

Does not represent a real person

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003096210330&ref=ffa
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003172979254
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000535348092&sk=wall

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003239201497&ref=ffa
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002551364111&sk=wall
https://www.facebook.com/divorceINmalta
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001707266948

Pretending to be a celebrity
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003385864073

By: Pawlu

Pawlu — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:41:13 +0000

I agree with previous post by Facebooker that there has to be a collective effort to get rid of fake profiles and report them as not being a real person.

For example, are profiles like Partit Laburita Marsaskala and many other similar profiles permitted?

[Daphne – Profiles must always be a real individual with a real name. Organisations have to stick to pages or groups.]

By: Maria Rosaria

Maria Rosaria — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:27:28 +0000

“Facebook’s greatest achievement is showing the human race for what we really are – attention-seeking, narcissistic, insecure and ordinary.” (Kane commenting on dailymail.co.uk)

By: Gino

Gino — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:07:24 +0000

Correction- not the one the Labour party targeted, but the one who targeted the Labour party, the one who swore to the cameraperson, just because of his presence. that’s how I refer to him at least.

[Daphne – Mhux ta’ b’xejn tivvota Labour, hanini. Let’s see now: a 19-year-old student is pestered by the agents of a large and powerful political party, and when he tells them where to stuff it, the full weight of the party machine comes down on him, with maximum use of its media, inciting hatred against him among people known for their violent sentiments. But it is the 19-year-old student who has targeted the monster political machine, not the other way round. Postok fic-Cina, qalbi.]

I believe fb is a SOCIAL network where anyone, and even politicans, can use their social techniques to form part of the community, so why not show what he prefers to eat.

[Daphne – Facebook is not a creed, Gino. It’s a fact of life. So ‘I believe’ does not come into it. As you said, anyone can be on Facebook and say whatever they like (within the law), but equally, everyone else is free to consider them ridiculous. Social techniques, as you describe them, are required for social situations, not internet situations. Also, Facebook is not a community. It is a networking system.]

By: Gino

Gino — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:49:01 +0000

In reply to Gino.

But before deleting anything you please, it is shown and anyone can see it.

[Daphne – Yes, that is exactly what I mean when I say that Facebook has been perverted and abused in typical fashion by Maltese people who are strangers to literacy and the concept of social media. In the normal course of things, people needn’t fear having abusive comments or slanderous ones about third parties posted on their walls. But Maltese people have a very low standard of education in these matters and the results are there for all to see. Where in the world would a 48-year-old politician show us his supper spaghetti, or former slum-dwellers who can barely write post insults about private parts on other people’s walls?]

In the case of Engerer you saw the word Pufta, but I didn’t. I noticed that you know facebook so well, for example knowing about the delete option. Oh wait a minute, I am sorry, please spare my ignorance, probably you use your husband, or your little child’s facebook, just to hide behind the screen.

[Daphne – Better than that, one of my sons (the one the Labour Party targetted in the 2008 election) worked for Facebook in London for some time. I don’t have a little child. My sons are all in their 20s. And my husband is a grown man. He would never use Facebook, and if he took to it, my opinion of him would go through the floor.]

By: Gino

Gino — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:43:01 +0000

In reply to Gino. Fair enough! Then at least these people whom you criticise have the guts, yes guts (the ideal word in this context) to go public on facebook and accept all kinds of opinions without the option of accepting/not accepting comments which they like or not. At least they are open to public scrutiny! Yes that's a call dot dot dot another one actually. [Daphne - Of course they have the choice. You can delete anything you please. Aside from that, it's not guts, but stupidity, emotional immaturity and a very strong exhibitionist streak.]

By: Gino

Gino — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:36:46 +0000

Daphne, this is a call for me to make one of the obvious questions: Could you give us the link to your facebook profile? Is, it true, you’re too shy you can’t even make a personal profile but hide behind a fake one? Obviously, taking into consideration that 85% of your articles are based on some facebook comment, picture and stuff.

[Daphne – I don’t have a Facebook profile. I have enough to do without attending to it. I am regularly supplied by readers, so don’t concern yourself on my behalf.]

By: Frans

Frans — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:20:19 +0000

There are three other false individuals’ profiles:

Bestof Labour
Labour Pride (Fgura)
Labour Pride

[Daphne – There are tens of them, not just those.]

By: Soviet

Soviet — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:17:31 +0000

He must be a relative of Yuri Gagarin, or, better still, Lenin.

By: Facebooker

Facebooker — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:15:09 +0000

Daphne, for the collective effort to work, any profiles noted should be reported here so that your other readers can help.