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Assalamualaikum Tuan Syed,
I'm M*****a and I've been a silent reader (and fan) of your blog. I love your blog and your work on exposing the lies and crime of the Pakatan Rakyat.
Anyway, I just want to let you know my observation of how PR is instigating my generation (gen X downwards).
Their internet 'marketing' strategy, I must say, is brilliant. People of my generation would subscribe to FB and more often read links and posts on FB than they do blogs. Just when there are any 'sensational' news, these PR cybertroopers would send all sorts of 'marketing' materials to be 'shared' among FB users IMMEDIATELY. It will include doctored youtube videos, photoshopped videos, fake infographics, links to all sorts of articles, etc. I remembered, there was a scandal involving Rosmah and her US$24 million Jacob diamond ring, they even "cut & paste" on a Utusan Malaysia newspaper template an article that said she menabung since she was young to buy that ring. And you'd be surprised at how many of my friend believed that article to be true! There are many others that I'd get finger aches to write all the fake articles and infographics that they do.
As you know, Obama won the first Presidential election because of the smart and aggressive internet marketing done by his cybertroopers. UMNO has VERY BAD cybertroopers. They should hire expert cybertroopers who are trained to neutralize debates, create the 'benefit of doubt', attack the lies made by the PR cybertroopers. But I don't see this happening at all. I hardly see any videos even as entertaining as the Pakatan's cybertroopers have made.
The buzz word of internet marketing is 'viral marketing'. If you make an entertaining enough video, it can go viral. With the resources of UMNO, I'm sure you guys can gather cybertroopers BETTER than those of PR. Heck, buat the video hollywood quality la.
I'm not trying to sell you anything or my services, because I'm an internet marketer myself. I'm just letting you know that I am concerned at the apathy of UMNO people on the strength of the internet.
If you can, please bring this up to the powers that be so that they will do something.
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Totally agree! I loathe all the anti-BN postings in FB, and I don't see even a single pro-BN posting shared. BN cyber-troopers and BN itself must buck up!
I'm the new generation.. and 200% agreed with the writer!
Pakatan immediately posted on fb any doctored picture... and the whole Pakatan supporters in Malaysia will say it's true and start spinning while it is hot or make a joke of it..
Later few more days...again the whole Malysia will notice it is just a photoshop... the supporter just remain silent but they will continue to make joke of it and lama lama semua org ingat betul!
Very true...
UMNo is more like a lame duck when it come to internet
Very boring...and slow...and too schema...especially the UMB...but people with brain can still follow
Unfortunately...those without brains are too many in Msia
They can easily get fooled
Like the writer has said...pasal cincin 24m Rosmah menabung dari kecik pun still got peoole believe them
God! Pls save us...
Anti bood
UMNO supporters are mostly silent readers and basically do not bother and get involved in cyber war as they are so busy with their life. What they do not know that as a result of what they continue doing it rite now, the pain will be return to them and that time its too late to act. UMNO supporters doesnt want to hurt anybody and trying not to get involve in political debate which affect harmony amongst others. But they will pay the consequences..
Panadai pakai internet, tapi senang kena tipu, macam mana ni?
Sayangnya termasuk aku jugak, kes Nizar RM207 billion tu nyaris aku percaya, padahal bila pikir balik RM207 billion?Gila apa.
Nilah kerja Pakatan, memperbodohkan rakyat je.
I agree with the writer. Most of the Pro-BN bloggers who are not paid are the ones that active tepis sana tepis sini. The Unit Media Baru boys were only all-in makan duit peruntukan (kalau ada) ataupun highlight event Menteri. Nilah jadinya kalau yang uruskan UMB tu kepalanya kaki ampu, yang bossnya si tua bangka yang tak internet savvy. Gerakerja UMNO dalam nak dptkan sokongan anak muda memang sangat lemah.
p/s: Tuan Syed, mohon saya nak copy paste email ni untuk saya ulas di blog saya. TQ
I have to agree. as a uni student in local IPTA i had to say that their cyber machinery is superb. They created fb groups, fb pages, blogs and so much more which contains humorous graphics/pictures/cartoons about BN/UMNO/MCA. to be more precise, they created posts like the ones you can easily find in 9gags (one free website just for enjoying simple fun). 'Memes' are viral too. The latest one- the 'listen listen listen' memes.
Most of the posts are very simple, addictive, funny and easy to understand. No article blog-type posts because they know that most young people are lazy to read even 1 paragraph of sentences.
Those posts are 100% government/umno bashing. Whether they are true or not, itu belakang kira. Benda sama if ulang 20x, lama2 orang akan percaya.
And sadly, I cannot find any government/umno fb group/page that use the same format as those opposition group/page. Not even one. Kalau ada pun, style share article panjang-panjang. As I said, orang muda-budak uni sekarang malas nak baca benda panjang. More importantly, no quick fun compared to those opposition's cartoons.
Hopefully, BN/UMNO cybertroopers learn something from the opposition's. Don't be syiok sendiri thinking we can win great because the mainstream paper said so, PM said so, Rais Yatim said so, or UMNO said so. Why? Because the hatred towards government amongst my uni students are generally high. Do something.
Oh example of the page- try search in facebook: malaysian gags. so far the likes counter had reached 50k. That's quite a number.
Tuan syed fret not la. I'd agree wiv an unknown above that we non-PR dunggus hv many other things to do in life rather than wasting our precious time on d net. Quite baffling also how d social media can b so addictive while we can achieve proper interaction in d real life outside. I'm a gen x myself bt I don't Hv an fb account. Pagi petang siang malam mhadap Facebook, don't even mind to sometimes take some fresh air outside.
In d 90s we'd Hv d same problem wiv d couch potatoes (me one of them as a kid) but this is worse. Dulu2 kita melekat kt tv masa Ada program yg best aje bila program yg xbest kita main d luar. But Internet cannot be controlled or shut off. No one isnt forbidden from doing what he wants to in d Internet which is most of d time all d stuff of little benefit. Now that goes to define d mentality n intelligence of d hantu2 Facebook. No wonder la PR could gain traction of these ppl. All gullible ppl who even mistake d virtual for reality. Good thing these ppl support PR, dua2 Sama saja hidup dlm khayalan.
Tuan Syed,
Very interesting. There are Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, and the tech generation, shall i call it the Gen Gadget..The problem is, people from Gen Y and below (older generation) are all into details and read. While the Gen Y and above (younger generation) are people who dont care about details. They see summary. This is the Twitter syndrome because Twitter limits to 140 characters. So their attention span is only 140 characters. Anything more they get bored and lose attention.
Blogs would be popular among the older generation as they like to see argument, and proof of argument. While the younger generation see the summary as proof of argument. That is why social NETwork is important to them (older generation call see it as social NOTwork) .
Blogs are akin to letters in todays world. They are slow. Imagine that, blogs is slow today. Twitter, Facebook and Youtube are how news travel faster. One day these will also be considered slow. But that day is not today, maybe tomorrow. But still blogs are considered slow mail.
p/s i like reading your blog. by this you know which generation i am from LOL...(acronyms and symbols are used and popular among the younger generation)
Whatever it is, let see the outcome of GE13. Mari kita lihat siapa yang kena. The email 100% correct. As you said, BN cybertrooper kebanyakannya tidur nyenyak and syok sendiri. Anyways, all my friends @ 4 series in age are against BN. Walaupun kerja sebagai banker, otak setakat kepala lutut, tak nak guna akal. Semua benda karut marut yg dikaja oleh PR semua depa percaya. I'm promoting your blog to them in order to simulate their critical thinking. Nak kasi tmbah sikit tahap IQ
lihat di link berikut. kes ni datang balik. convenienct sungguh berita ni datang balik masa ni. laporan pakar sprm dari UK tidak diambilkira
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TUEQKfj1tic#!
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