Tag: Facebook

• Learning Disagreement Skills

  

  Go on, click the angry icon. Share the negative post or tweet.

  Andrew Whalan

  May 10, 2017

  Opinions

  Disagreement, Education, Facebook, Freedom of Speech, Listening, Social media, social media trolling, Twitter

• Trolls and Insults….If all you can do is call me names then you have run out of facts!

  Often on Twitter I am witness to many different conversations both great, good, bad and truly vile. One I just witnessed was the use of the insult: Unfortunately, the insult landed. VanBadham’s father recently died (of cancer on the 19th March 2013). Her response to my (and many many others) sympathy and to the insults…

  Andrew Whalan

  March 31, 2013

  Opinions

  Facebook, Insult, Online Communities, Percentage, Politics, Social Networking, Trolls, Twitter, Van Badham

• Why the MainStream Media is Dying…

  Imagine you are a journalist in a small country town. You know everyone and they know you. Any unethical behaviour will in time be found out. Then you lose your contacts, advertisers, circulation and your newspaper’s reputation. Imagine you are a journalist in a city. You know no-one and no-one knows you. Any unethical behaviour…

  Andrew Whalan

  March 17, 2013

  Opinions

  Advertising, Australia, Ethics, Facebook, Journalist, Mainstream Media, Media, Murdoch, News Limited, Newspaper, Social media

• Rumi’s Puzzle of Love

  Though long deceased, the Persian poet Rumi regularly sends me quotes on Facebook. Last week’s quote was “To find the Beloved, you must become the Beloved.” I was puzzled. And I tried to analyse it. And became more puzzled. So this time took my advice to others: when puzzled, describe don’t explain! So while I’m…

  Andrew Whalan

  January 29, 2013

  Personal

  Arts, Facebook, Literature, Persian literature, persian poets, poet rumi, Poetry, Romance, Rumi

• Social Media Simplified

  Imagine you’re invited to a party. You check the date, time and place. You get ready and turn up. You expect to be the centre of attention. But when you arrive, the party is happening and has been going forever. Everybody is talking at once. Everybody seems to know everyone else.  People will stop talking,…

  Andrew Whalan

  January 24, 2013

  Personal

  Business, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Social media, Social network, social-media, Twitter

• Being Strategic About Trolling

  

  Recently I was trolled on Facebook. Someone left some rather unsavoury comments on a photo I posted.   After some thought and some research, I deleted the post and blocked the person from Facebook. The personal effects on me are just that, private and personal. But it raises some questions for me and for anyone…

  Andrew Whalan

  July 31, 2012

  Personal

  Facebook, Google, Online Communities, Personal Effects, Social media, Social network, Troll, Twitter

• Social Media is Old-Fashioned (Really!)

  Before social media, there was the grapevine, bush telegraph or rumour mill. I found this out growing up in two small country towns. Basically, my parents knew everything about everyone. There were no secrets there, and now there seem to be none on the internet! Of course, this is the negative back-biting side of social…

  Andrew Whalan

  February 26, 2012

  Personal

  Blog, Facebook, Pinterest, President, Social media, Social media marketing, Twitter, Vocus