{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if this is the right 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 he can probably participate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[871,297,137],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-education-ministry","tag-facebook","tag-malaysia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-ni","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}