20 June (Part 2) - Wiping the grin off his Facebook
In
2011 John Kerlen’s use of
the C word on Twitter provoked councillor Melvin
Seymour into making a false statement to a load of bent Bexley coppers who had
the evidence in front of them that Seymour was telling porkies. It landed John
with a ten grand barrister’s bill to prove his innocence and I have been very wary of social media
ever since.
I was late to Twitter and my use of it is generally restricted to announcing new blogs;
RSS feeds
seem to have fallen out of favour. It doesn’t help that Chrome requires a
plug-in.
I am not alone in being behind the Twittering times.
The Save Old Manorway
Playground Group (@saveOMWP) found their way to Twitter only last week. Their
big day will be on Tuesday 30th June when they are due to present their
petition to none other than porkie pie Seymour himself.
Facebook
has been a complete mystery to me and at the time of writing I still find it
a bit of a muddle but last month another thorn in Bexley council’s side told me
that council staff were sometimes able to bypass
their ban on access to Bonkers
via links posted on Facebook. “I have it on good authority that councillor Read
is not happy that council run computer networks can access your blog via Facebook!”
It certainly whetted my interest in Facebook so when a bit of spare time came
along I researched whether the claim could be true. Does Facebook really cache
linked web pages? It appears it does!
Making certain councillors unhappy is one of the driving forces behind BiB and
if it is councillor Philip Read who is being annoyed, so much the better.
Earlier today the Facebook icon appeared alongside Twitter’s on the menu bar
above. Clicking on it should take you to the BIB Facebook page.
For the time being it will do no more than list new blogs and as I
understand it users of Bexley council’s servers can access the Facebook front page and from
there search for Bonkers Bexley. I probably won’t have time to regularly
respond to comments but why did no one tell me about Facebook’s page caching before?
Save Old Manor Way Playground on Facebook.
Bexley is Bonkers on Facebook.
List of websites banned by Bexley council.