{"id":1444,"date":"2009-04-18T00:46:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T05:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2009-04-18T00:46:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T05:46:33","slug":"air-your-thoughts-via-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/18\/air-your-thoughts-via-facebook","title":{"rendered":"Air your thoughts via Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if this is the <i>right<\/i> use of Facebook, but Malaysia&#8217;s Deputy Higher Education Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah has decided that a good thing to do, is to be online, on the first and third Wednesday of every month, from 10-11pm (so he&#8217;s working nights), on Facebook, so that <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/4\/17\/nation\/20090417145113&#038;sec=nation\">he can probably participate in a Facebook chat with students.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He mentions &#8220;Facebook messaging&#8221;, and its unclear if he plans to add students as his friends, to then get them chatting, or if he just wants to receive &#8220;email&#8221; via Facebook? Or is it a good way to get information about students that are griping to the minister, and mark the troublemakers out?<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s to say. Whatever it is, I don&#8217;t think Facebook is the right platform for this sort of thing, but kudos for trying to be <i>hip<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Air%20your%20thoughts%20via%20Facebook&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F04%2F18%2Fair-your-thoughts-via-facebook&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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