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WHEN FACEBOOK GIVES ME NO CHOICE

January 27, 2012   cham   No comments

Just come across news that Facebook will on Tuesday role out their new Timeline design to each and every user on the social site,and this will be compulsory,whether the user wants or not. Timeline was launched worldwide last September and is designed to be an online scrapbook that shows “important life events” throughout users’ lives, in each year.Until now, the change to Timeline had been voluntary

I am not happy about this at all,as personally i am not a big fan of the new design and dont find it much attractive.The page is filled with too many unwanted stuff,that probably leaves one not  having much time to be going through them. Yes, not everyone is happy with change,but change should be convincing on why a facebook page should be showing things that one did or wrote in the past. I really find this unnecessary and can have alot of privacy flaws.

Having been on facebook for over 4 years now,and from my experience,the site never does much consultation when it comes to changes it makes and when it does most of them are compulsary. Its very difficult to critically blame them as joining of this social network is for free,meaning if you are annoyed with anything you can just leave. However ,from the business point of view,that may not be the right way to treat your customers.

Facebook makes money mainly through the many advertises that advertise on the network to gain advantages of its millions of users. This shows that there is direct correlation between facebook finances and the number of people on the network. Definately for this reason,they will be great need of elements of customer care so that the users might not get fed up and start deleting their accounts,which can make the network unattractive to advertisers. We do not need to go far to produce some empirical eveidence on this, as recent case studies of social site slike Myspace, Bebo, Hi5 might show you the natural death of a social networking site.

Hovering through the internet, i have compiled some reactions of different facebook users and what they think about the new changes

Writing on Sky news website,one user namely: Ewhite :wrote

“I hate that new look,,,why dont they leave it alone,there was nothing wrong with the old way,its more muddly now and puts me off using it to be honest!
If it aint broke dont fix it.
Or if the facebook team is reading this, give people the choice of either style”

Another one namely,CAF  expressed his opinion “Funny, people moaning about people moaning!
The problem with facebook is it doesn’t give it’s users a choice! Being forced to make this change is nothing new with facebook… I can’t help but wonder if the owner of the site has connections with the government: Facebook makes it very easy to find out what an individual is upto… Now it just makes it even easier for prying eyes to see when & where the individual has done everything in their lives!”

In a poll conducted by Sophos and  published on msbc.com , it has revealed that the reception of the new timeline has been negative . With over 4000 respondents being questioned  over 50% said they were not happy and worried about the new design.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe its time facebook give people the option on whether they want to remain on the old style, rather that making it compulsary for everyone to switch to timeline.

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FIGHT IN MALAWI PARLIAMENT- When a minister cant answer questions

November 24, 2011   cham   1 Comment

Events at Malawi Parliament took a new twist today as reported in most of the online publications. It has been reported that a female member of parliament attacked internal affairs and Defence minister Aaron Sangala after the cabinet minister in his deliberations accused the lady MP former husband the late Marshall Mdukulira, of being a murderer, killing people for their private parts to be sold on the black market. How shameful that the whole defence minister inabilities to defend himself were exposed by this angry lady, as his shirt was ripped off and his neck nearly crushed.

Member of parliamnet: ANITA KALINDE

The whole saga started when Minister Sangala was in parliament presenting a report on the death of poly student and political activist Robert Chasowa who mysteriously died and is suspected of being murdered a few months ago. According an an extract from online News ,the Nyasa times “It all started when Home Affairs Minister was presenting a report on Robert Chasowa when a group of MPs started to seek the minister’s crystal-clear clarification on the matter and questions were coming from all corners from the opposition MP’s, Sangala at this point in time kept referring to ‘old’ issues and thereby diverting from the issue at hand,

Thyolo North MP Anita Kalinda, formerly of the ruling DPP but now has joined vice president Joyce Banda’s Peoples Party (PP), did not react to the debate on the Ministers statement but only counselled Sangala to concentrate on the issue at hand rather than referring to occurrences that happened in the past regimes”

It is clear the minister lost his cool or had no clue of what he was talking about as exposed by the diversion in his answers. Its at this time that he decided to go for a person verbal attack on the lady MP accusing her former husband Marshall Mdukulira of being a murderer and a dodgy dealer.

I have observed that it is common with most ministers in Bingu government to fail to answer and be clear when asked questions. No need to mention the likes of presidential spin doctors like Hetherwick Ntaba , who diverting the truth is their style. If this is how the whole cabinet is, then Malawi finds itself once again in pathetic position. I sometimes wonder how many of Malawian ministers and even the president can withstand the likes of interrogation that goes every week in British House of commons on Prime Minister Question Time. It just shows that ,most ministers dont give themselves time to familiarize themselves and properly digest the issues that they are going to present, or they have so much things to hide.

I am not here to support the physical attack that Anita Kalinde did ,as I also believe that as an MP she should have known better the correct procedures of making complaints if she was greatly offended by the ministers remarks. Fighting in parliament is not what the common people want at this time, what they need is solutions to issues like fuel crisis, electricity supply and concern for lack of human rights by the current regime. Its time that ministers in Bingu government raise their standards of which I doubt they would, since the head of state himself cannot answer questions with transparency as he quick resort is always to blame the opposition

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Gaddafi will requests Sirte burial as Libya declares liberation

October 23, 2011   cham   No comments

Document on former Libyan dictator’s website likely to further confuse debate over where he should be buried

A will apparently written by Muammar Gaddafi expresses the wish that he be buried in Sirte, the town of his birth, next to “my family and relatives” FOR THE FULL STORY  CLICK ON THE SOURCE

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The SIX ways Michael Jackson’s life could have been saved.

October 13, 2011   cham   No comments
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Michael Jackson could still be alive if six ‘extreme deviations’ in his treatment had been avoided, a court heart yesterday.

Cardiologist Dr Alon Steinberg listed six flaws in Conrad Murray’s treatment in Los Angeles Superior Court which had a direct impact on the 50-year-old ‘Thriller’ star’s death
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IS IT THE END GAME FOR THE BELOVED BLACKBERRY?

October 13, 2011   cham   No comments

Blackberry users around the world have in the past days felt let down by the mobile phones they love most. With one of the most important features of the blackberry handset , web browsing and messaging system being affected- the handsets have felt more useless. What is even more annoying is the failure of the makers of the hand sets Research in Motion in coming up with a concrete statement ,telling their customers what the main problem is and assuring them that it will be rectified. This is why , this blogger in analysing the current situation feels Research in Motion may be digging their own grave.

The worrying thing about the company and its latest setback is that a few weeks ago,it announced that its Net profit fell to $329m (£208m) for the three months to 27 August, from $797m in the same period a year earlier. In fact it confirmed that Blackberry had lost its market share to rivals Apples iPhone and Googles Android phones with Goldman Sachs estimating that Blackberry global market share has fallen to 9% from 16% a year ago.

To any company this was a worrying situation that needed a closer look on their business model and quick change of strategies. But alas! It never rains but pours as weeks later the company finds itself in this mess. With almost all their customers angry and venting their anger on social networking sites such as twitter and facebook, Surely never has a brand needed some good PR than Blackberry at this time.

However, the greatest damage limitation the company would do is to rectify the problem quickly. As of today , the services seems to be back to normal but its not guaranteed that all is over. The latest setback has exposed some deep problems within the company

Firstly, its has shown that the company has grown beyond their expectation and imagination- with the influx of millions of new customers especially from the new markets in Asia and Africa, it seems its just too much for the company to handle.

Secondly, it has exposed lack of proper leadership within the company. The Canadian company was founded by its management, which is now being urged to step down. Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have been joint chief executives for nearly 20 years and also chair Rim’s board. Disasters are always the biggest test to any leader but blackberry managers have failed to manage the situation by not being on the upfront- failing to be open and showing understanding of the problem, failing to communicate in good time and with great assurance to their customers and worse still by taking days failing to solve the problem. In a very fast and competitive business world of today, this has been a major blow to itself as a company.

However, all is not lost as there is still a chance to instil confidence in their customers. We don’t know which damage limitation strategy the company will use but if no proper action is taken or the management still procrastinates ,this could be the start of the last days of blackberry as a major force in the smart phone business. The frustrated customers need to have confidence in the handsets again otherwise there will be a mass exodus of blackberry customers to rival handsets in the coming months

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