COLAGATE A BIG HIT ON FACEBOOK Cook Islanders, it seems, have quickly become fixated to social networking, with users spending hours every week on such services as Facebook and LinkedIn. So does this mean that this is a dawn of a new era in information dissemination in the Cook Islands? It appears so. It isn’t surprising then that savvy Cook Islands politicians now have their own Facebook page and regularly practice “Facebookplomacy”, one of the most active politicians is leader of the opposition Wilkie Rasmussen. The social networking site COLAGATE Cook Islands on Facebook has had a total of 197,500 hits in the past 5 days according to some reports, confirming that new age technologies using social net working sites like Facebook are extremely popular with Cookies and their friends around the world. Ever since Tata Crocombe’s successful High Court Appeal was loaded onto the Colagate Facebook website the comments have been coming in thick and fast. The power of social media should not be understated, as the Arab Spring showed. Dictators and corrupt government officials met the brunt of anger from the citizens of these nations and the enveloping wave of protest took the the Arab nations by storm, those fires are still burning today! This brought a whole new dimension to people power. People power with networked technology could over throw a government and bring a country to its knees. We are unable to print exactly what has been said on Colagate Cook Islands but getting a Facebook account is the first thing you’ll need before you are able to sign in. Upon opening the page the first thing that jumps out at you is a banner with Colagate in the Coke Cola swirl with a caption below that saying....” Trevor Clarke $22M” Here is a snippet of some of the comments that we have been careful not to reprint verbatim. “F*&ked up Cook Islands government!” “Stupidass nincompoops!!! Gudluck Mr Crocombe...” ““Good job Trevor Clarke... dats wat u get. No te angaanga crook oki. Congrats to u Tata.” The mood on Facebook Colagate is certainly anti CITC and anti Trevor Clarke, with some real venom in some of the comments. Its obvious that the website is designed to stir up the emotions with moral quotes from dead but famous people, and it even has links to recorded interviews from people like NZ First leader Winston Peters and investigative reporter Nicky Hagar. For this old hag, finding the time to sign up to Facebook is something I’m still trying to come to terms with. - George Pitt ciherald.co.ck
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 06:14:58 +0000
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