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Re: Understanding The Power Of Social Media

mathewbirkin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:42:04 -0000

your an idiot, you cant see that social media is part of the cancer that is plaguing each citizens civil rights on a daily basis.

Secondly if they did have computerised social media back then, it would have only helped with that particular regime, which was a society, scared of non-conformity because they never knew who was spying on them and when. As I have just learned, it is dis-respectful to use comparisons to this for argumentitive purposes, So rather from an Orwellian perspective, Jonathan may aswell open a telescreen shop.

If Privacy had a tombstone, it would read, "Remember, This is for your own good".

Re: Understanding The Power Of Social Media

mathewbirkin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:19:34 -0000

you lose too

Re: Understanding The Power Of Social Media

mathewbirkin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:20:45 -0000

damit

Re: Understanding The Power Of Social Media

mathewbirkin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:06:56 -0000

This is crowd power...

More like heard psychology. You seem to be quite good at this john, I can think of another man who was also quite good at this. A man who also chose easy targets and fought for ''social'' justice. Like yourself he was bullied as a child, and suffered many beatings. Upon finding his social media he also became famous, and with the same god complex delt out his own second party punishments. Only you are english and this man was german.

Can you think who he is?

Re: Ian From The London Underground Vs An Elderly Man

mathewbirkin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:28:05 -0000

if it was a polite society, then the white haired guy would be following the instructions of the lug staff member. So really they are both to bame.

Re: Ian From The London Underground Vs An Elderly Man

mathewbirkin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:24:58 -0000

why should he be denied the due process rights that everyone else is intitled to? Just because some one has grossly invaded his privacy by filming and posting this to make a quick buck?

Re: Ian From The London Underground Vs An Elderly Man

mathewbirkin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:53:05 -0000

To Ryan, Im pretty sure that "LU", is quite up there on the camera front, concidering they themselves have more than 30 of them on some platforms, maybe this christmas season they should blog some of their own footage, footage of white collars like yourself pissing in the train compartments or crapping on the platforms, maybe they should name and shame everyone who is passed out on a train in a puddle of their own vomit. Why does everyone else have a right to privacy but not the front line workers of london?

Re: Ian From The London Underground Vs An Elderly Man

mathewbirkin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:30:57 -0000

So other than the short out of context, unverified shaky phone clip, and the one sided account of our blogger here, a whole city of white collars have set out to hang, draw and quarter an easy target blue collar. From the clip, all you can factually see, is a man with white hair, continually disobey the direct instructions of a TFL staff member.

The white haired man is oblivious to the staff members responsibility for the safety of everyone elses on the platform, that he thinks that his life is more important that anyone one of the 200 other people on the platform. He was in front of the yellow line, which regardless is a fineable offence, he repeatedly blatently disobeyed the instructions from the member of staff to not board the train and to return to the entry hall to be delt with by the transport police, yet another offence, if this was an airport would the it move as many papers?

What ever happened in the rest of the context leading up to this video clip is hearsay, open to interpretation and writen misconception. These are people who work for the tube, not robots, one of the few good things about london transport is the occasional staff personalitys that shine through during announcements. This man was doing his job, if the white haired man had fallen onto the tracks whilst being in front of the yellow line, he could have endangered the lives of several others, possiably skitteling them onto the tracks as well. What would your opportunist blogger write then. Would the headlines then read, ''Man films old guy hit by train, rail staff accused of negligence of failing to keep passengers behind yellow line?''

At the end of the day, the clip actually shows a TFL worker at the end of his tether, frustrated at an obnoxious white haired male who in the midst of a crowded platform decides to be a law unto himself. If it hadnt been a younger TFL worker with a ''pony tail'', and instead been a london transport police officer giving the instructions the whole incident would not have happened. You cannot apply the same rules and etiquette as a white collared office building, to the blue collared customer service field, where only 30% of the customers speak english. These guys do a fantastic job, in a field which is basically problem management.

Unlike transport police, TFL staff do not have the power to manhandle people to get them to do what is required for public safety. Without granting transport staff more power to do what is necessary to make the trains run safely and on time, sarcasm is pretty much the only weapon that they have which embarrass people, to get them to conform. In a city that has no respect for its public servants, where opportunists with mobile phones take photos to give to two bit tabloid newspapers, the transport system in london will always be a shambles.

The public sector is so used to being micro managed and tied up with knee jerk reaction please explain red tape, that its no wonder that they find it hard to smile.

Let them do their jobs.