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| Gej And His Imaginary Facebook Friends - Lies And Ignorance by Kobojunkie: 6:04am On Mar 23, 2011 |
[size=13pt]GEJ and His Imaginary Facebook Friends - Lies And Ignorance[/size] http://www.saharareporters.com/column/gej-and-his-imaginary-facebook-friends-lies-and-ignorance "Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool that the open your mouth and remove all doubts" is a very popular maxim; a cliche, perhaps. But, it is a truism, nonetheless. It is, essentially, the type of thinking that would scare the pants off of an incumbent President and his deputy at the mere mention of the word "debate". So, Dr. Jonathan heeded the age-old cliche, zipped his mouth shut, hid under his presidential bed and refused to come out and take questions from Nigerians, while his opponents humbly subjected themselves as true servants of the people do in a democracy. A smart play, one would say. That was what we thought, too, until we stumbled upon a new book, "My Friends and I", ostensibly written by the pResident himself. Sounds like the title of a "book" your kindergartner would write? We thought so, too. But the title of the book, jejune as it may be, is, arguably, the least of our concerns. In "My Friends and I", Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan ignores the entreaties of whoever said "better to keep your mouth shut", the same advise he managed to take by not showing up for debates. GEJ did not just merely open his mouth, he opened it so wide the flies built a mansion in the cavity. In "My Friends and I", Dr. GEJ clearly demonstrated his abject lack of understanding of the most basic concepts of the subject he pretends to command - Facebook. In writing "My Friends and I", pResident GEJ clearly demonstrated that his occupancy of the position of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria put the nation of Nigeria in grave dangers. The naivety demonstrated by GEJ in "My Friends and I" portends a security risk for the decision making and governance of the country. That GEJ manages to clearly demonstrate all these while telling one or two bald-faced lies in the process is mere icing on the cake, but it is something worth noting because it was an unnecessary made in a stupid attempt to burnish and otherwise pedestrian history of "achievements". We read "My Friends and I" so that you don't have to subject yourself to the inanity and amateurish attempts by GEJ to wrap himself in "populist" garbs as the "Facebook President". In a scurilous attempt to prove that he is personally involved in the administration of his Facebook fan page, Jonathan told us (all Nigerians) in "My Friends and I": "Many may not understand why I decided to open a facebook account. The President is too busy to have time for facebook, many will say." Many more would say that, if the President of a country takes it upon himself to personally open and maintain a Facebook page, that president is not only not busy or engaged enough, he is also a tad unserious and (to be charitable) monumentously ill-advised. Jonathan not only dismissed the relevance of his advisors in his mad quest to position himself as the Nigerian Facebook pResident, he also couldn't resist the temptation to grossly exagerate the "results" of his use of social media. Jonathan made the following claim in his fairytale "book": "Also, a Finland-based student, Dipo Daramola, and his colleagues made a suggestion to me on the way to fight insecurity and kidnapping using technology. I promptly invited them for consultation. These are indications that interacting with me on the facebook is not a waste of time. Every Nigerian has a stake in the country and has a right to be heard." Here, Jonathan is clearly trying to convey the misleading impression that he did, indeed, put Facebook to some form of productive use. What he failed to disclose is that the student and the idea he cites here are still waiting ad-infinitum for the promised "invitation for consultation" letter to materialize. The referenced "conversation" took place eons ago, and it was just a chanced interaction that has since then not been revisited, not once since the many, many months that have since elapsed. And our "I'm soooooooo Obama-like" pResident is already making a book out of the event, an additional feather in his over-sized cap. Having asserted his personal administration of a Facebook page, pResident Jonathan went on to claim: "For one, I would say I was motivated in no little way by President Barack Obama of the United States. His novel use of social media network, especially facebook, starting from during his presidential campaign, has stimulated new thinking on participatory governance across the world." This is the point at which the accidental pResident's naivety begins to rear its ugly facade. An otherwise intelligent, informed and hip public figure would have been apprised of the fact that celebrities and public figures do NOT use the social media in the way pResident Jonathan has been led to believe. Jonathan sees himself as the second coming of Barack Obama. That, in itself, is a very sorry admission, but it is of less importance and consequence as his inability to understand that Barack Obama (the candidate) did NOT operate a Facebook page by himself. No. The referenced Facebook page and other numerous social platforms Obama leverage to much success were operated entirely by operatives to whom he had delegated such mundane tasks. Obama the President uses these mediums periodically to engage Americans, on important occassions and for specific events. He does not "operate" these mediums the way Jonathan would have us believe. We have first-hand knowledge of how the social media were utilized by Obama-the-candidate, having been part of the armies of operatives and volunteers who kept those medium well-oiled during the said period. The intricacies and technicalities of how these things work appear to be lost on our accidental pResident. If Jonathan had stopped here, one may be tempted to forgive him rather than accuse him of abject ignorance. But, he didn't. Jonathan went on to boast: "I am impressed with the growing followership. I understand I am the President with most facebook fans in the world after US President Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy." Sad. So very sad. Someone is being joe-jobbed here, and we know that it is none other than Jonathan. Whoever has made Jonathan to understand his "popularity" in the way he described is definitely not his well-wisher. Otherwise, he would have been made to understand that neither Obama nor Sarkozy sees Facebook as a governing tool the way Jonathan is describing in his book (more on this below). The hangers-on that have been whispering this "understanding" in Jonathan's ears do not appear to think much of him. Otherwise they would have told him that there are so many reasons no other intelligent head of state pound their chests over the size of their Facebook "fans". They would have told him that real leaders engage their people through things like town hall meetings (where ordinary citizens get to question their leaders without filters), press conferences (where members of a free press get to grill the president without fear or expectation of "transportation money" at the end) and (God forbid) ACTUAL debates. As if that were not enough, Jonathan proceeded to confess his ignorance of the ways a Social Medium (Facebook in particular) works: |
| Re: Gej And His Imaginary Facebook Friends - Lies And Ignorance by Jakumo(m): 6:34am On Mar 23, 2011 |
Kobojunkie my learned friend, be advised that Ayatollah Buhari, the Baboon-Dawa of Kutuwenji Village, is destined to LOSE as usual in the upcoming presidential elections, so the number or very existence of Johnny B. Goodluck's internet friends will remain a purely academic consideration of peripheral significance at best. I eagerly look forward to reading your inevitable gripes and grumbles when the incumbent Nigerian president remains in power where he belongs. |
| Re: Gej And His Imaginary Facebook Friends - Lies And Ignorance by Nobody: 6:34am On Mar 23, 2011 |
Sorry to say; this is not a good article, the writer seems to have to much bile. |
| Re: Gej And His Imaginary Facebook Friends - Lies And Ignorance by Nobody: 6:36am On Mar 23, 2011 |
First of all the president does have friends on facebook they are not imaginary. |
| Re: Gej And His Imaginary Facebook Friends - Lies And Ignorance by ektbear: 6:41am On Mar 23, 2011 |
aisha2: +1. Much ado about nothing. Sure, he doesn't know how facebook and technology works. It isn't his area of expertise. Not a big deal. |
| Re: Gej And His Imaginary Facebook Friends - Lies And Ignorance by eghost247(m): 7:45am On Mar 23, 2011 |
thrash from A TO Z |
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